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WASHINGTON 



ALMAS TEMPLE 

A. A.O.N.M.S. 


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TEXT BY CARL H. CLAUDY 


Press of W. F. ROBERTS COMPANY 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 

1923 




























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COPYRIGHTED BY 
ALMAS TEMPLE, A.A.O.N.M.S. 
1923 


©C1A7056 3 8 


MAY 29 1923 


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INDEX 


PAGE 

Agriculture, Department of. 51 

Air Map.203 

Almas Committee Chairmen. 13 

Almas Divan. 12 

Almas Potentate. 12 

Almas Temple Headquarters.220 

Alexandria, Christ Church.103 

American League Base Ball Park.133 

American Red Cross.73 

American University. 103 

Amphitheater. Arlington.100 

Appreciation .232 

Army Air Station.147 

Army Medical Museum. 87 

Army War College. 05 

Art Gallery, Corcoran. 01 

Auditorium, Washington.110 

Avenue, The.135 

Base Ball Park.133 

Bathing Beach.143 

Bolling Field.147 

Boy Scouts.105 

Bureau of Engraving and Printing 

71. 220 

Bureau of Standards.231 

Burnsiana, Supreme Council.100 


Capitol at night. 27 

Capitol, East Front. 20 

Capitol, West Front. 25 

Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul. 03 

('enter Ma rket.115 

Central High School.105 

Chamber of Commerce, XL S.113 

Chastleton Hotel.217 

Children’s Hospital. 00 

Chimes, Epithany Church.121 

Christ Church, Alexandria.103 

< "hurch, Epiphany.121 

Church. Mt. Vernon Place M. E. South 127 

City Club.207 

City Hall. 85 

Club, City.207 

Club, Columbia Country. ..213 

Club, Congressional. 200 

Club, Racquet.205 

Club, University.100 

Club, Washington Golf and Country 


201-202 

Columbia Country Club.243 

Commerce, Department of.150 

Commercial National Bank .225 

Confederate Dead.177 

Congressional Country Club.200 

Congressional Library. 41 


PAGE 

Congress, Joint Session. 33 

Congress Office Buildings.191 

Connecticut Avenue Bridge.221 

Continental Memorial Hall. 75 

Corcoran Art Gallery. 91 

Court House. 85 

Daughters of the American Revolution .75 

Department of Agriculture. 51 

Department of Commerce.159 

Department of the Interior.83 

Department of Post Office. 59 

Department of State, War and Navy.. 53 

Department of Treasury. 45 

District Building. 81 

District Court House. 85 

Eastern High School.197 

East Room, White House. 21 

Ellipse.137 

Engraving and Printing.71, 229 

Epiphany Church Chimes.121 

Flag. 17 

Foreword. 9 

Freer Gallery. 67 

From the Air.149 

Gateway. 79 

George Washington. 15 

Gettysburg Address. 39 

Golf, Public.145 

Government Hospital for the Insane.. 123 

Government Printing Office. 63 

Great Falls.157 

Hahnemann Memorial.131 

Hamilton Hotel.219 

Hospital, Children’s. 99 

Hospital, St. Elizabeth’s.123 

Hospital, Walter Reed.189 

Hotels and Theaters.215 

House Office Building.191 

House of the Temple.107 

Imperial Potentate. 10 

Imperial Divan. 11 

Income Tax Bureau. 47 

Insane, Government Hospital for....123 

Interior Department. 83 

International Historical Museum.125 

Joint Session of Congress. 33 

Key Bridge.161 

Lee House (hotel).218 

Lee Mansion.179 






























































































Lincoln Memorial. 


Lincoln Statue. 


PAGE 


PAGE 

. 11 

Riggs National Bank. 

222 

. 13 

Rock Creek Park. 

.. 155 


T7nnspvplt Hofpl . 

. . 216 

. 39 





. 197 

. 175 

Scott Circle. 

. . 227 

. 139 

Scottish Rite Temple. 

. . 107 

.115 

Senate Office Building. 

. .191 

. 101 

Smithsonian Institute. 


. 108 

Sheridan Circle. 

. . 185 

. 87 

Soldiers and Sailors Monument.... 

. .129 

. 169 

Soldiers’ Home. 

. . 151 


Speedwav . 

. .141 

. 131 

State, War and Navy Department. 

.. 53 

37 

Stfitnnrv TTm 11 




. 93 

.181 

St. Elizabeth's Hospital. 

. . 123 

, .211 

Supreme Council Burnsiana. 

. . 109 

.. 35 

Theaters and Hotels. 

. .215 


Monument to the Confederate Dead.. 177 

Mosaic Map. 89 

Masonic Memorial, Washington.181 

Mount St. Albans, Cathedral. 98 

Mount Vernon. 165 

Mount Vernon Estate.183 

Mt. Vernon Place M. E. Church South 127 

Museum, Army Medical. 87 

Museum, International Historical.... 125 
Museum, New Natural History. 57 


Tomb of Washington.167 

Tomb of L T nknown Soldier.171 

Treasury. 15 

Treasury Annex. 17 

Union Station. 79 

United States Chamber of Commerce. 113 

United States Naval Academy.187 

University, American.193 

University Club.199 

Unknown Soldier. 171 


National Academy of Science.Ill 

National Savings & Trust Company, 221 

Natural History Museum, New. 57 

Naval Academy.187 

Naval Observatory. 97 

Octagon House.117 

Old Glory. 17 

Overseas Dead.173 

Palace Theater.221 

Pan American Union. 77 

Patent Office. 19 

Peace Monument.129 

Pennsylvania Avenue.135 

Pension Office. 65 

Post Office Department. 59 

Potomac, Along the.157 

Potomac Park.Ill 

Presidential Park. 23 

Racquet Club.205 

Reading Room. Library of Congress.. 13 

Red Cross . 73 

Red Room, White House. 20 

“Remember the Maine”.175 

“Representative” Church.127 


Veterans Bureau. 69 

Walter Reed Hospital.189 

Wardman Park Hotel.211 

War College, Army. 95 

Washington, Aerial Photographic Map 

of . 89 

Washington Auditorium.119 

Washington Banks.223 

Washington City Post Office. 61 

Washington from the Monument.119 

Washington Golf and Country Club 

201. 202 

Washington Market.115 

Washington Masonic Memorial.181 

Washington Monument. 35 

Washington, the Mason. 15 

Washington's Church.163 

Washington’s Great Light. 27 

Washington's Tomb.167 

White House. 19 

White House, East Room. 22 

White House, Red Room. 21 

White Lot.137 

Your Money.229 

Zoological Park.153 
































































































FOREWORD 


O ILLUSTRIOUS IMPERIAL POTENTATE 
McCANDLESS, the officers of his Divan, the 
representatives to the Imperial Council Ses¬ 
sion, and the Nobility in general, Greetings. 

Almas Temple bids you welcome to the Capital City. 
We who are native to Washington give you its key and 
its freedom; because this is the city of all the nation, it 
is the nation which welcomes you to its Capital. 

It is not with civic, but with national pride that we 
who live here say to you, “This, our city, is beautiful; 
beautiful with the beauty of great architecture, beauti¬ 
ful with the beauty of splendid avenues and grand vistas; 
beautiful with the beauty of open space and magnificent 
distance; beautiful with the beauty which is the heritage 
of all of North America.” 

A little of this beauty we have striven to capture and 
pin to a page within this book, that you may take from 
Washington a concrete reminder not only of what you 
saw here, but a visible token of the affectionate and 
fraternal regard in which you, our guests, are held in the 
hearts of all of Almas Temple. 

Almas Temple welcomes you, with what feeling of 
pride and joy that you decided to “park your camel 
with Uncle Sam’l, no words adequately can express. 

Let these pages, then, express to you not only the 
physical loveliness which is Washington, but the inner 
loveliness which must ever surround hearts which beat 
with fraternal love. And when you return to your 
homes, let it be with the glory of this country en¬ 
graved upon the tablets of your mind, and the name of 
Almas written on your hearts. 



Page Nine 









JAMES S. McCAXDLESS 

IMPERIAL POTENTATE 


Page Ten 



ESTEN A. FLETCHER 

Impend Martha! 

. Rochester. N. Y. 


JAMES E- CHANDLER 
Impend Chief Rabbin 


DAVID W. CROSLAND 

Impend Recorder 
MoBlfOPwrt, Ala. 


U ILLIAM S. BROWN 
Imprrid Hifh Print and Prophet 
I’ill‘burgh, Pa. 


JAMES C. BIRGER 
Impend Atritiant Rabban 
Denver, Colo. 


CONRAD V. DYKEMAN 
Imperial Deputy Potenu. r 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 


FRANK CJONES 

Imperial Firtt Ceremonial Mailer 
Houston, Tr»> 


CLARENCE M DINBAR 
Imperial Oriental Guide 
Providence, R. 1. 




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IMPERIAL DIVAN 


Page Eleven 














































































CEORGE DUVAL, JR. 
Illustrious High Priest and Prophet 


ARTHUR E. COOK 
Illustrious Treasurer 


J. WALTER KARSNER 
Illustrious Oriental Cuide 


WISDOM D BROWN 
Illustrious Chief Rabban 


HARRY F CARY 
Illustrious Assistant Rabban 


LEONARD P. STEUART 
Illustrious Potentate 


HARRISON DIXGMAX 
Illustrious Recorder Emeritus 


F. LAWRENCE WALKER 
Illustrious Recorder 


COLIN E. E. FLATHER 


JAMES T. GIBBS 




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ALMAS TEMPLE POTENTATE AND DIVAN 


Page Twelve 




















































































ALMAS TEMPLE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 


Page Thirteen 



















































































































WASHINGTON, THE MASON 

SHOOTERS HILL, located between the 
Capital City and Alexandria, Va., is now in 
course of erection a great Temple to Washing¬ 
ton, the Mason. It is being erected by the 
George Washington Masonic Memorial Association, with 
the aid and co-operation of all the Grand Lodges of the 
United States. All, save one, have co-operated; doubt¬ 
less the one will come into the fold and make of this 
an All-Masonic movement. 

In Alexandria, in the keeping of Washington-Alexan¬ 
dria Lodge, are the priceless relics of George Washington, 
Master Mason and Past Master. When the great Temple 
is finished, these will be deposited within it in per¬ 
petuity that they be forever guarded from fire, from the 
ravages of time, and saved, for so long as their material 
shall last, an heritage for all Masonry. 

The great Temple is to stand, a beacon light to 
Masonry, as Washington was beacon light to all the 
world. It will be to those who see it a more personal 
memorial than the great shaft erected to the First Presi¬ 
dent by his country, for it will commemorate those 
services which Masons especially venerate. 

For Washington was an earnest Mason; he held mem¬ 
bership in at least two lodges, he was a Past Master, and 
he talked, lived and acted the principles of Free Masonry. 
Books have been written of his Masonic life. This is 
to be a book of stone, which Mason and profane alike 
may read at a glance; a tribute to their distinguished 
brother by the Masons of the United States, who thus 
stand, vicariously at least, in loving respect beside his 
memory, and cast, in the form of their lasting Temple of 
stone, the acacia sprig of grateful brotherly remembrance 
to that member of their order who made possible the 
America all Free Masons love. 



SPONSORED BY 

L. P. STEUART 


Page Fifteen 












OLD GLORY 


T WAS our country of which Henry Van Dyke 
wrote when he sang of 

“ * * * the blessed Land of Room Enough, beyond the 

oeean bars 

Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars!” 

Under no other flag can a man worship God as he 
pleases, as fearlessly as under the Stars and Stripes. 

Under no other flag can a child grow to maturity with 
his success bounded only by his ambition, as easily as 
under the Stars and Stripes. 

Under no other flag is “life, liberty and the pursuit of 
happiness” guaranteed as thoroughly as under the Stars 
and Stripes. 

Under no other flag does Masonry flourish as whole¬ 
somely, as freely, as safely and as honored, as under 
the Stars and Stripes. 

In the Blue Lodge, there is a flag. 

In the Chapter, stands a flag. 

In the Commandery, Sir Knights march beneath the 
flag. 

In the four bodies of the Scottish Rite, the flag is 
in the East. 

In the Shrine, the flag is everywhere. 

Masonry stands for the flag, stands by the flag, stands 
beneath the flag in honor and reverence, and wraps the 
flag about her as a mantle of protection from enemies, 
a guerdon of defiance of tyranny and oppression, at once 
a cloak, a weapon for righteousness and a glorious jewel. 

From the beginnings of our country, flag and Masonry 
have written the story of American history together. 
As long as the United States endures, as long as Masonry 
remains enshrined in the hearts of men, so long shall 
Old Glory be to the world the symbol of liberty, equality, 
fraternity, justice and faith in God. 



SPONSORED BY 


ARTHUR COPELAND 


Page Seventeen 

























THE WHITE HOUSE 



FFICIALLY "THE EXECUTIVE MANSION," 

unofficially and by common consent "The 
White House," this noble building is so inter¬ 
woven with American history and American 
sentiment that it is difficult to know where to begin 
when speaking of it. 

The first building erected for the new Government, its 
site was chosen by Brother George Washington, who 
himself laid the cornerstone, with Masonic ceremonies, 
on October 13, 1792. (It is evident that Washington 
was not superstitious.) Tradition has it that the First 
President and his wife visited and approved the com¬ 
pleted building shortly before his death. 

In 1814 British troops demolished the building, leav¬ 
ing only four walls. To obliterate the marks of smoke, 
fire and shell, when the Mansion was rebuilt the build¬ 
ing was painted white, and “The White House’’ it has 
been ever since. 


Practically untouched until Roosevelt s day, it was 
materially added to under the administration of our 
Strenuous Brother, when it was provided with offices 
and cloak rooms. 

Visitors are welcomed to the more historic parts of 
the White House on week days from 10 A.M. until 
2 P.M. If not in use, the curious may see the East 
Room, or State Parlor, where receptions are held, the 
Blue Room, or President’s Reception Room, and the 
State Dining Room, where the three principal diplomatic 
events of the year occur: the President’s dinners to the 
Diplomatic Corps, to the Cabinet and to the Supreme 
Court of the United States. 

Beautiful and spacious grounds surround the White 
House, and provide the President with at least the out¬ 
ward semblance of privacy. 


SPONSORED BY 


SAMUEL J. PRESCOTT 


Page Nineteen 










RED ROOM, WHITE HOUSE 

























AST ROOM. WHITE HOUSE 

















«TTH 




PRESIDENTIAL PARK 


HE beautiful grounds which surround the 
White House, and which provide a private 
playground for the Chief Magistrate and his 
family are as carefully cared for as those of 
any man of wealth in all the world. 

Here the President may play tennis, if he will; in¬ 
deed, the tennis court upon the lawn behind the White 
House has been the scene of many notable events, not 
only when Roosevelt played and formed his famous 
“tennis cabinet” but upon occasions when world cham¬ 
pion players have come to the city, there to exhibit their 
skill for the benefit of the President. 

Here, too, are held Marine Band concerts during the 
summer evenings, particularly for the benefit of the 
White House but always open to the people of the city, 
who are then made welcome to these private grounds. 

Here, also, occurs that odd little event on Easter 
Monday, when Washington’s small children are invited 
to come roll their Easter eggs on the lawn. 1 he Pres¬ 
ident always lends the cheer of his presence to the small 
merrymakers. 

Here, also, Mrs. Harding entertains in those informal 
garden parties for which she has become famous, and 
where so much of social and political significance occurs. 

Noble Harding will entertain his personal friends 
among the nobility here and doubtless many who read 
this will carry away with them an intimate and personal 
knowledge of the President’s pleasing hospitality. 

Visitors to the city should not confuse the private 
ground here shown with the Ellipse, the big public 
play ground immediately to the South of it, an error 
likely to occur because the Ellipse is often called the 
“White Lot.” 



SPONSORED BY 

SAMUEL J. PRESCOTT 


Page Tiventy-three 














THE CAPITOL 


O BUILDING in America so typifies the 
government of the people, for the people, by 
the people, as this, the home of the national 
legislature and the Supreme Court of the 
United States. 

There is so much to see in this building, that pages 
are devoted to it in the most condensed guide books; 
to attempt even to catalog the sights here to be seen 
would be to take more space than many pages would 
supply. But the visitor will want to stand in the 
Senate Chamber, and visualize the Senate in session if 
he can, to stand in the House of Representatives and 
wonder what it is like when the House is in session, 
will bare his head in respect as he looks into the Supreme 
Court room, where sits the most august legal body 
which has more power than that possessed by any other 
tribunal in the world. 

He will want to visit Statuary Hall (elsewhere de¬ 
scribed in these pages), will descend into the crypt, 
wander through its great Rotunda and admire (perhaps) 
the paintings there displayed and by all means take a 
trip to the top of the dome, wearisome though it be, to 
test for himself the marvelous whispering gallery, and 
stand for a moment higher than he can get above Wash¬ 
ington than in any other place except the Monument 
and an aeroplane. 

Independence Hall in Philadelphia is often called the 
cradle of American liberty; this building then, is the 
fort for the defense of American liberty, her honor and 
her fair name; here are made not only the laws which 
govern us all, but the policy by which we, as a nation, 
live; here war is declared, when war must come, and 
here peace made, when war is done. 

Truly, if it can be said of any one spot, this is the 
heart of America. 



SPONSORED BY 


CHARLES F. ROBERTS 


Page Twenty-five 














WASHINGTON’S GREAT LIGHT 



LECTRIC illumination of the exterior of public 
buildings in the Nation s Capital has become 
a specialty with lighting engineers, and 
strange and beautiful are the effects sometimes 
produced. The photograph shows the dome of the 
United States Capitol, as it appears when the target for 
a huge battery of Army searchlights, spreading fanwise 
through the clouds their streamers of colored light. 


A veritable man-made aurora borealis, this wonderful 
picture was seen during the Peace Conference, making 
of the illumination a symbol for all the world to see. 
As Masonry is a beaconlight to all mankind, pointing the 
way to tolerance, brotherhood, charity and education, so 
the illuminated dome of the Capitol then blazed forth 
a beacon light of political enlightenment, moderation and 
common sense, that all the war-torn world might see 
the better way. 


Always when Congress is in session the dome of the 
Capitol is lit from without, although not always with 
searchlights. A searchlight beam plays constantly on 
the great shaft of the Washington Monument, and the 
Lincoln Memorial has been the subject of many lighting 
experiments to determine the most beautiful way in 
which it can be silhouetted against the curtain of night. 
The House of the Temple, home of the Supreme Coun¬ 
cil of the Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction, 
makes a wonderful engraving of light and shade when 
its exterior illumination throws its thirty-three pillars 
into sharp relief against its lighted masonry. 

These are, perhaps, the Lesser Lights of Washington. 
The Great Light of the Capitol of the United States is 
pictured for you, here. 


SPONSORED BY 

E. C. GRAHAM 


Page Twenty-seven 









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CAPITOL, EAST FRONT 

HE original city fathers placed the Capitol 
building on Capitol hill with the idea that the 
city would grow to the east, away from the 
river; just why, no one knows. The city 
grew the other way faster than the way it was supposed 
to move, so it is the rear of the Capitol, really, which 
faces up Pennsylvania Avenue. 

The real “front” of the Capitol is that which faces 
the Capitol Plaza, shown in the picture 

Here is the scene of a President s inauguration; stands 
are built out from the main Capitol steps, where, in the 
presence of Congress and high officials of the govern¬ 
ment, the incoming president takes the oath of office 
and makes his inaugural address. 

At such times there are massed spectators to the 
number of a hundred thousand in the Plaza, and always 
the President is guarded by the West Point Cadets and 
the Midshipmen from Annapolis as he goes through 
this simple ceremony. 

On this Plaza are held other ceremonies; when Wash¬ 
ington has a Community Christmas Tree, it is erected 
here, and when, as not infrequently happens, some or¬ 
ganization or society desires to give a “demonstration 
to Congress, it is here that they mass in parade that 
members and Senators may see their numbers and their 
earnestness. 

The Plaza has also been the scene of some spectacular 
demonstrations of another kind; wild westerners have 
ridden horses up the Capitol steps, an enthusiastic autoist 
once demonstrated the ability of his car by rushing 
over the Plaza and up the steps and aeroplanes have 
landed on the Plaza to show Congress that the air is 
really conquered. 



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JOHN L. EDWARDS 


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STATUARY HALL 



NE of many interesting sights to be seen in the 
Capitol Building is the collection of statues 
in Statuary Hall. The room in which this 
collection stands is the old House of Repre¬ 
sentatives. An Act of Congress of 1864 authorized its 
present use, which is to exhibit statues sent and contrib¬ 
uted by each State in the Union to a number not greater 


than two, each, of such citizens of the State as are 
“illustrious for their historic renown or from distin- 
guished civil or military service.” 


There are now fifty statues in place, only about half 
the States having taken advantage of this opportunity 
to immortalize their great citizens. Two statues which 
always excite unusual interest are those of Frances 
Willard, founder of the Woman s Christian Temperance 
Union, gift of Illinois, and the bronze replica of Sequoyah, 
inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, an achievement recog¬ 
nized by Congress with a grant of $500 (this was in 
1828). This statue is the gift of Oklahoma. 


As a rule the statues do, indeed, represent men (and 
a woman!) whose services justly entitle them to their 
place in this hall of fame, but as much cannot be said 
in all cases for the art displayed in the sculpture. Not 
all States, to which were given great men, had great 
sculptors to commemorate them, with the result that 
some of the displays are more well intentioned than 
beautiful. However, a statue in a hall of fame is a 
statue in a hall of fame, whether it is of the highest 
art or no, and perhaps the variety in art displayed adds, 
rather than takes from, the variety of greatness thus 
commemorated! 


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A JOINT SESSION 


N IMPRESSIVE sight which the Noble visitor 
to Washington may at this time see only in 
the picture, is a joint session of the Congress, 
being addressed by the President of the 
United States. 

Such joint sessions are held in the House of Repre¬ 
sentatives Hall in the Capitol building, the Senate 
Chamber not being designed for so large a multitude, 
either of legislators or spectators. 

The Senate convenes and marches over to the House, 
where the Representatives find room for their Senatorial 
colleagues. The galleries surrounding the Chamber on 
three sides are always packed; admission is usually by 
card and all diplomatic Washington assembles to hear 
the message which the President, thus laying it before 
the government, is also putting before the country. 

The House of Representatives Hall, where such ex¬ 
ercises are held, is a huge chamber one hundred and 
thirty-nine feet long, ninety-three feet wide and thirty- 
six feet high. It possesses a cast iron ceiling, its 
central portion of glass, forming a skylight, which is 
decorated with the coats of arms of the different States 
and territories. 

At the right of the Speaker’s desk is the Mace, em¬ 
blem of authority of the Sergeant-at-Arms, which he 
must carry when exercising his function of carrying the 
commands of the Speaker. The most turbulent scenes 
between members on the floor are instantly quelled when 
the Mace is borne to the front with the Speaker’s com¬ 
mand to desist. 

The picture shows a joint session with the President 
reading an address; it should speak to all Americans of 
the simple democracy and the unity of thought which 
makes the United States the “land of the free.” 



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ARTHUR A. CHAPIN 


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WASHINGTON MONUMENT 


HE Noble visitor to the Capital City cannot 
better begin his sightseeing tour than with 
a trip to the top of the Washington Monu¬ 
ment. 

This great shaft, five hundred and fifty-five feet, five 
inches in height, has been called the most perfect piece of 
masonry in the world. From its top the visitor stands 
five hundred feet above its base, where through eight 
windows he can see all of Washington. and for many 
miles beyond, up and down the Potomac River and out 
over the hills of both Virginia and Maryland. 

The ascent is made either by climbing nine hundred 
steps, with plenty of landings on which to stop and rest, 
or by taking the electric elevator, which makes a round 
trip every fifteen minutes. Few people walk up, but 
many walk down, in order to inspect the numerous 
tablets, carvings and memorials set in the interior of the 
shaft by States, societies and nations. Many stones 
from Grand Lodges throughout the country may be seen. 

The Monument is open for visitors all day long. The 
elevator makes its first trip at nine and its last trip at 
four in the afternoon. Thirty people are carried at a trip. 

The great shaft in honor of Brother George Washing¬ 
ton is erected upon a site which he himself chose as one 
on which he would like a memorial to stand. Its corner¬ 
stone was laid July 4, 1848, with Masonic ceremonies. 
Due to the Civil War, the giving out of funds and parti¬ 
san politics, the building ceased at 154 feet. It was 
resumed in 1878 and the capstone was put in place 
December 6, 1884. The total cost was $1,187,710.31. 
It could not now be duplicated for three times the sum. 

Timid visitors are assured that no elevator in the 
world has more safety devices, or is more absolutely 
safe than this one. 



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LINCOLN MEMORIAL 


UNIVERSAL AGREEMENT, America s two 
greatest men are Washington and Lincoln. 
As different in character as two men could be, 
their memories intertwine in the hearts of all. 

The memorials erected to their memories are as dif¬ 
ferent as edifices of stone could be, and yet, adjacent 
as they are, in the same park, forever connected in the 
minds of all beholders. 

The Washington Monument stands straight, simple, 
undecorated, majestic, towering, unique. The Lincoln 
Memorial has already taken its place as one of the most 
gloriously beautiful pieces of architecture in all the 
world—classic in its simplicity, awe-inspiring in the 
austerity of its interior. 

For there is literally nothing within, beyond the heroic 
size statue of Lincoln, the paintings upon the walls, and 
the Gettysburg and Second Inaugural Addresses, in 
bronze letters against the stones. 

Here, in the poetic words of some unidentified visitor, 
the nation “can be alone with Lincoln.” And none 
who visit this tribute to his memory, erected by a grate¬ 
ful republic to the man who kept the nation whole, but 
feel, in the simple majesty of the temple, its peaceful 
outlook, its beautiful reflecting pool, its grave and 
thoughtful statue of the First Martyr of the Republic, 
something of that grandeur which was his life. 

There is no authentic record of Lincoln having been a 
Mason. That he was one in his heart, no Mason doubts. 
He made frequent use of Masonic speech in his talk and 
writing, and no Mason ever better lived the life of 
brotherhood. So it is fitting that the most beautiful 
pile of masonry in the Nation’s Capital should com¬ 
memorate him, and keep forever young the recollections 
in Mason and profane alike, of the tenderness, the sweet¬ 
ness, the justice and the strength, which was Lincoln. 



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OUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO 
OUR FATHERS BROUGHT FORTH ON 
THIS CONTINENT A NEW NATION CON¬ 
CEIVED IN LIBERTY AND DEDICATED 
TO THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL MEN 
ARE CREATED EQUAL. 

NOW WE ARE ENGAGED IN A GREAT CIVIL 
WAR TESTING WHETHER THAT NATION OR 
ANY NATION SO CONCEIVED AND SO DEDI¬ 
CATED CAN LONG ENDURE. WE ARE MET ON 
A GREAT BATTLEFIELD OF THAT WAR. WE 
HAVE COME TO DEDICATE A PORTION OF 
THAT FIELD AS A FINAL RESTING PLACE FOR 
THOSE WHO HERE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT 
THAT NATION MIGHT LIVE. IT IS ALTOGETHER 
FITTING AND PROPER THAT WE SHOULD DO 
THIS. BUT IN A LARGER SENSE WE CAN NOT 
DEDICATE—WE CAN NOT CONSECRATE—WE 
CAN NOT HALLOW THIS GROUND. THE BRAVE 
MEN LIVING AND DEAD WHO STRUGGLED 
HERE HAVE CONSECRATED IT FAR ABOVE 
OUR POOR POWER TO ADD OR DETRACT. 
THE WORLD WILL LITTLE NOTE NOR LONG 
REMEMBER WHAT WE SAY HERE BUT IT CAN 
NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID HERE. IT IS 
FOR US THE LIVING RATHER TO BE DEDI¬ 
CATED HERE TO THE UNFINISHED WORK 
WHICH THEY WHO FOUGHT HERE HAVE THUS 
FAR SO NOBLY ADVANCED. IT IS RATHER 
FOR US TO BE HERE DEDICATED TO THE 
GREAT TASK REMAINING BEFORE US—THAT 
FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE IN¬ 
CREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR 
WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE 
OF DEVOTION—THAT WE HERE HIGHLY RE¬ 
SOLVE THAT THESE DEAD SHALL NOT HAVE 
DIED IN VAIN—THAT THIS NATION UNDER GOD 
SHALL HAVE A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM— 
AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE BY 
THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT 
PERISH FROM THE EARTH. 


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ALLISON N. MILLER 


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CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY 


NQUESTIONABLY the most beautiful public 
building in the entire world, at least as far as 
interior goes, the Library of Congress, almost 
directly east of the Capitol building in Wash¬ 
ington, is alone worth a trip to the Capital City. The 
student finds its principal attraction in the fifty-four 
miles of bookshelves which hold the thousands of vol¬ 
umes of the Library and which can hold a total of 
9,500,000 books. The engineer looks upon the unique 
book railway which carries books from the furthest 
stacks to the central reading room, or through a tunnel 
to the Capitol building, with interest. The art student 
and the curio lover find in its wonderful painting and 
curiosity collections attraction sufficient to hold attention 
for weeks. 

The sight-seeing visitor is sufficiently rewarded for a 
visit by the beauty of the superb lobby with its huge 
marble staircases, its wonderful frescoes, its marvelous 
decorations in mosaics, in brass, in gold and in color. 
Two thousand windows make it the best lighted library 
in the world, and its solid gold dome makes it unique 
even in a city of unique structures. 

No picture can do justice to the riot of perfectly 
blending colors, no description can adequately portray the 
beauty of its illumination at night. Visiting Nobles may 
not imitate that South American visitor who loudly 
bragged of the glories of Buenos Aires to his conductor 
previous to arriving in the building, and who took one 
look, snatched off his hat and sank on his knees, ex¬ 
claiming: “Est ees not America—eet ees paradise,” 
but it is certain that they, like all other visitors to this 
remarkable building, will find nothing more impressive 
in the Capital City than the palace which houses its 
treasures of learning, of art, of valuable books, prints, 
folios and manuscripts. 



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WILLIAM S. CORBY 


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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS READING ROOM 



reading room of the National Library at 
Washington could much better be called by a 
more pretentious name. Its lofty proportions, 
its perfect symmetry and its almost over¬ 
powering beauty set it apart from any inclosure in any 
other building. Yet the public is not only invited but 
urged to use this reading room and every possible facility 
is given the reader to get what he wants quickly. 

An enormous card catalogue supplies names and book 
numbers. Numbered desks surround the central office. 
The visitor chooses his book or books by number, name 
and author from the catalogue, writes the facts and his 
desk number on a card and hands it to an attendant. 
Through pneumatic tubes and book railway, which taps 
the most distant book stack, the volume he wants is 
speedily laid before him, to use as long as he may desire 
to read or study it. 

In addition to this privilege, alcoves are set apart for 
research work, writing from reference books, etc., and 
assigned on request. Authors come here with type¬ 
writers and secretaries, scientists with note books, women 
with pencils and a serious air to get up club papers, 
school children for references to lessons, business men 
for information. 


Nor do the Library’s activities end here. Special serv¬ 
ices are rendered those who want copies made of either 
pictures or text, and, of course, a periodical room, a 
newspaper room, the copyright office and a dozen other 
activities are included. 

The building, surmounted by its gold dome, is gener¬ 
ally conceded to have the most beautiful decorations of 
any building in the world. Visitors are informed that a 
trip to the top gallery of the dome is something never to 
be forgotten, once seen. 


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THE TREASURY 


“TREASURY” is a place where treasure is 
kept. Uncle Sam’s Treasury is the building 
where he keeps his money. But the great 
Treasury Building in the Nation’s Capital 
houses a much more valuable treasure than the mere 
gold, silver, notes, bonds and coin it contains. 

That treasure is the credit of the United States. A 
silver certificate is worth the dollar it calls for in the 
belief of everyone, only because in the Treasury in 
Washington is a silver dollar waiting for the holder of 
the certificate to come and get! And visitors to the 
Treasury, welcome any day from nine until two, can 
see the vaults where the silver and gold are kept! One 
may not go in and count the silver dollars, because it 
would take too long, but if anyone has any doubts, he 
may offer a greenback and get his silver dollar, and so 
learn at first hand that Uncle Sam’s credit is good! 

The Treasury was built a long time ago; the main 
building was completed in 1841 and the wings and 
porticos at either end finished in 1 869. It is a huge pile 
of solid masonry, 466 feet long and 264 feet wide. 

Visitors may see the money being counted, the bond 
room, where millions are represented in paper; may even 
be handed a million dollars in bills to hold; may see the 
money washing and laundering and the macerating pro¬ 
cess which disposes of worn out bills. 

No successful effort has ever been made to rob the 
Treasury; the only successful frauds perpetrated are 
those connected with counterfeiting and redeeming mu¬ 
tilated bills, and these are few in number and seldom in 
occurrence. 

The Treasury is located at the western end of the mile 
and a quarter sweep of Pennsylvania Avenue, the eastern 
end of which is the United States Capitol. 



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MILTON E. AILES 


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TREASURY ANNEX 



F YOU are worried about your income tax, 
here is the place to get first-hand information! 

The Treasury Annex, standing directly 
across upper Pennsylvania Avenue from the 
Treasury Building, and facing on Lafayette Square, is a 
handsome grey Indiana limestone building with eight 
Ionic columns on the Lafayette Square side. The build¬ 
ing is connected with the Treasury by an understreet 
tunnel. It adjoins the Riggs Bank on the east and the 
Belasco Theater on the north. 

By no means all the income tax work is done in this 
building; so heavy is the income tax work that tem¬ 
porary war buildings to the south still house many in¬ 
come tax workers. It is not generally recognized what 
a vast amount of government machinery is necessary 
to check up income tax returns, a machinery no less 
necessary that the greater number of tax payers and all 
good American citizens, try their best to make both 
honest and intelligent returns. 

This part of Uncle Sam’s work is done in a spirit of 
fair play and open-mindedness; collecting the income 
tax is not accomplished by treating every man as if he 
were a rascal, but, even when a mistake is patent, as 
if he were honestly mistaken. It is only when attempted 
fraud is evident that the Income Tax Unit comes down 
heavily on the delinquent. 

The Treasury Annex occupies a commanding position 
in official Washington. The structure occupies the site 
of the historic home of Thomas S. Gunnell, a dentist, 
whom President Van Buren appointed City Postmaster 
of Washington. At one time during the Civil War the 
Gunnell house was headquarters for The Department of 
Washington. 


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LUTHER F. SPEER 


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PATENT OFFICE 


ERHAPS THE MOST important part of the 
Interior Department, the Patent Office, lo¬ 
cated in the classic building which occupies 
the city squares bounded by Seventh, Ninth, F 
and G Streets N.W., is the only branch of the Govern¬ 
ment which has paid back to the Federal Treasury a sum 
greater than its entire cost. 

In it is housed that band of experts in all lines of 
science, invention, discovery and the arts, who are 
charged with the duties of issuing to inventors patents 
upon their ideas, providing always that those ideas are 
“new and useful.” Upwards of one million patents have 
been granted by the Government, many of them the 
foundations of great industries and enormous wealth. 

The Patent Office is now wholly inadequate, as far 
as its building goes, to house the activities which are 
crowded into it. In former times a large “model hall” 
was a show place in the building, but a few years ago 
the pressing demand for space required the room be de¬ 
voted to desk space. The practice of demanding a model 
with each invention was discontinued and the collection 
of models was stored and dispersed. Many of the 
models of the more historic character, such as Abraham 
Lincoln s patent on a method of lifting boats over shoals, 
were placed in the National Museum, where they can 
still be seen. 

It is no less strange than true that there is, perhaps, 
less to see, from the visitor’s standpoint, in this public 
building than in many of the far less important ones. 
Those interested in patents and patent law, of course, 
will find in the great library and the patent files much of 
intense interest, but the process of granting a patent 
does not lend itself to the provision of a “show place” 
such as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing or the 
National Museum. 



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JOSEPH A. MILANS 


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 


HE Department of Agriculture at Washington 
uses more room than any other branch of the 
Government. It is housed in three large 
buildings and dozens of small ones. When first 
started in 1862 , a relatively small red brick building, 
occupying a commanding position in the Mall (the park¬ 
way connecting the river with the Capitol) was amply 
large enough. To this have since been added two huge 
wings of a new Agricultural building which is yet to be 
erected. These white marble wings, with an empty 
space where the building is to be, are but an indication 
of the growth of Uncle Sam’s most important internal 
department. 

In addition to the old building and the two wings, 
various bureaus of the Department occupy rented prop¬ 
erty in the vicinity. 

The activities of the Department of Agriculture are so 
numerous and varied that a catalogue would be weari¬ 
some, but hardly a man, woman or child in the country 
but has an interest in some part of its work. The 
Bureaus of Animal Industry, Chemistry, Plant Industry, 
Farm Management, Public Roads, Forestry, Entomology, 
Biological Survey, Soil Survey, Weather Bureau, all have 
a direct bearing on the pocketbooks and the lives of 
everyone. The laboratories, exhibition rooms, libraries, 
and, of course, the great Weather Bureau in a set of 
buildings of its own, are open to the public. The edu¬ 
cational feature of a trip to Washington is nowhere 
more emphasized than in a thorough survey of this most 
important branch of Government activity. Until the 
visitor has a thorough comprehension of what the Agri¬ 
culture Department does he cannot be said to know his 
Government. To gain that comprehension in the eas¬ 
iest and most delightful way is one of the pleasant pros¬ 
pects of Nobles who make the trip to Washington. 



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CHARLES JACOBSEN 


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STATE, WAR AND NAVY 


E granite home of the State, War and Navy 
Departments in Washington is 567 feet long, 
and 342 feet wide, occupying an entire city 
square, four and one-half acres of ground, its 
five hundred rooms reached by two miles of corridors. 
It was completed in 1893 at a cost of $11,000,000. 

The immense pile immediately adjoins the White 
House to the west. Both the War and Navy Depart¬ 
ments have overflowed the main building and now 
occupy in addition several buildings in the vicinity. 

Within the building are interesting exhibits, although 
as a whole the Departments are not show places for the 
visitor. There are a number of beautiful models of 
battleships, cruisers and other naval vessels in the cor¬ 
ridors. There is an exhibit of army uniforms of various 
periods, and many mortars and cannon captured in war 
guard the doorways. Perhaps the most interesting part 
about the State Department is the fact that this, the 
smallest department in point of numbers of any in the 
Government, is the only one which has a fund the ex¬ 
penditure of which is not to be accounted for to the 
people. This is the contingent fund, used largely in 
necessary secret work, about which publication would 
be an impossibility. 

The War and Navy Departments and their ramifica¬ 
tions expend much money in paying for past wars and 
preparing for future ones. But not all the money so 
spent is unproductive of economic good. The medical 
profession owes a vast debt to the Army Medical De¬ 
partment and the United States Engineers are constantly 
at work in improving the country—as in the case of the 
Panama Canal, as well as the enormous river and harbor 
work conducted by the United States Government. 



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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE 

HE Smithsonian Institute is unique among all 
Government institutions, in that it was origi¬ 
nally founded by a private bequest. James 
Smithson, an Englishman, left his entire for¬ 
tune of half a million dollars for the founding and 
support of an institution to be devoted to the “increase 
and diffusion of knowledge among men.’’ 

Pages might be devoted to the scientific activities of 
the Institution and the triumphs it has scored. Meteor¬ 
ology and weather prediction were born here, fish culture 
started, and aeronautics begun. But for the visitor the 
main interest of the Smithsonian is its museums. The 
old National Museum, which shares with the Pension 
Office the distinction of being the ugliest public build¬ 
ing ever constructed, at least as far as the exterior is 
concerned, holds the most varied collection. It is here 
that the patriot will find those relics which are so rev¬ 
erently held by all Americans—Washington’s army coat 
and camp kit, Lincoln’s personal belongings, a model 
of the invention he patented, Grant’s sword and medals, 
Morse’s first telegraph instrument, the original Bell 
phone, Joseph Henry’s first magnets, the Cyrus Field 
submarine cable relics, and so on for hundreds of inter¬ 
esting glass cases. Here are paintings, rugs, rare fabrics, 
minerals, engines, clocks, jewels, idols, mummies, shells, 
boats, pictures, flying machines, the first typewriter, the 
original Selden automobile—a catalogue would take a 
whole page and then not be well begun. 

The new Museum, or Museum of Natural History, 
contains much more than animals and birds, although 
these in general and the Roosevelt African collection in 
particular, attract much attention. Special mention 
must be made of the National Gallery of Art, where a 
magnificent collection of paintings owned by the Gov¬ 
ernment are on view. 



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MILTON J. HINE 


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“NEW” MUSEUM 


HE Natural History Building of the National 
Museum at Washington is as beautiful inside 
as from without. Visitors will probably be 
as much interested in the Roosevelt collection 
as in anything else. This exhibit is composed of a few 
of the thousands of specimens which Brother “Teddy” 
brought with him from Africa. Lions, rhinoceroses, 
giraffes and dozens of smaller animals, all exquisitely 
mounted, are here to be seen. 

The room devoted to pre-historic monsters and the 
skeletons of animals who lived too many thousand years 
ago to count, is one of the startling surprises of this, 
building of wonders. 

The halls in which the ethnological exhibits are on view 
form one long curiosity shop. Here natural groups of 
many savage and semi-savage races live in wax and 
plaster, with the actual objects of their occupations and 
dress about them. There is nothing of the “wax works” 
joke about these. So life-like are the figures, so natural 
the poses, that more than one visitor has waited pa¬ 
tiently for one of the supposed “models” to move. 

Here also are birds—thousands of birds—from all over 
the world, and exhibitions of plumage and of nature in 
strange forms alone well worth a visit to the fascinating 
place, although hundreds of visits would hardly suffice 
for even a quick examination of the 180,000 birds the 
Museum possesses. Only a part of this army, of course, 
is mounted and on exhibition. 

It should be understood that this wonder palace and 
its companion building, the old Museum, are not mere 
curiosity parlors for the visitor, but are used by scientists 
from all over the world for research work and study, 
made possible only by the magnificent collections housed 
under two great roofs. 



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JOHN T. VIVIAN 


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POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT 


GOVERNMENT activity touches lives more 
closely than the Post Office and the growth of 
no department more clearly indicates the 
growth of America. In 1837 every citizen of 
the country spent 32 cents a year for postage. Now 
every citizen spends nearly $3.00. The entire postal 
business at the time of the Civil War was not so great in 
a year as the postal business of the city of Chicago today. 

In the Post Office Department, a huge building facing 
north on “The Avenue” in Washington, the business of 
the biggest postal service in the world is conducted. To 
the visitor it is a collection of offices and clerks, yet 
no Department at Washington has more interesting 
things to show. Among these is the postal museum 
where are curiosities of the mail in large numbers, as 
well as examples of how mail is carried in strange places, 
and methods of postal apparatus. 

The Dead Letter Office is probably the most interest¬ 
ing part of the Department to the visitor. It is the 
morgue of letters of the ignorant, the careless or the 
foolish. Thousands of letters without addresses, with¬ 
out names, without any information upon the outside as 
to whom they are intended for, are mailed every year. 
Not only letters but packages, containing anything from 
the dried hind legs of a grey wolf to a set of false teeth, 
from the amputated hand of a doll addressed simply to 
“Grandma” to the package of dollar bills dropped in the 
mail with no address. 

All undeliverable mail is examined, inside and out, in 
the Dead Letter Office. All that has a clue to the sender 
is returned. The rest is destroyed, or, in the case of 
packages, held for a time and then sold at auction. 

The annual auction sale is always well attended and 
nets a considerable sum to the postal revenues. 



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HENRY C. ALTHOFF 


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CITY POST OFFICE 


HEN the tourist arrives in Washington, the first 
public building to be seen on leaving the 
station is, of course, the Capitol, which shows 
up sharply against the sky line a quarter of 
a mile distant. The nearest public building is the 
Washington City Post Office, immediately adjacent to 
the station and connected to it so that incoming and 
outgoing mail is handled to and from trains with the 
least expenditure of time. 

Uncle Sam never erects a poor post office. In the 
many he has constructed all over the country he has 
spent money lavishly and put up buildings worthy of the 
postal system which makes this huge nation a possibility. 
In the Capital City he has outdone himself. No post 
office in the world can be compared to this one in exterior 
beauty or interior convenience. While Washington is a 
small city compared to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia 
or Boston, it handles a most phenomenal amount of 
mail because of the enormous Government correspond¬ 
ence and the immense amount of public documents 
which are “franked” all over the world. Endless belts 
and conveyors, the most modern weighing machinery 
and specially built apparatus makes this post office a 
model. 

Much less than half the mail which goes through it 
has stamps upon it, Uncle Sam using a plain printed 
envelope with “Official Business” in one corner. From 
three to four hundred thousand pieces of mail bearing 
Government franks go out of Washington every day, 
and twenty-five thousand letters delivered to the House 
and Senate Office Buildings and the Capitol in a single 
twenty-four hours is not uncommon. 

The beautiful building, the first passed by visitors to 
Washington, has an interest far greater than the usual 
post office, and well repays a visit to its corridors. 



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MERRITT 0. CHANCE 


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“G. P. O ” 



NYTHING “biggest in the world” appeals to 
an American with special force. Every 
Mason believes America is the biggest and the 
best of the nations. That it possesses in 
Washington the biggest and the best printing and pub¬ 
lishing house in the world is therefore no surprise. 

The Government Printing Office, or the “G. P. O.” 
as it is usually known, is larger than any other plant, 
either government or private. It is devoted strictly to 
making of printed matter and must not be confused 
with that other great institution, the Bureau of Engraving 
and Printing, which manufactures paper money, bonds, 
stamps, certificates and other fine plate work. 

The printing of the “Congressional Record” appeals 
to the Congressman as the most important part of the 
“G. P. O.’s” work, but it is really but a by-product. 
Every department, every bureau of every department 
of the Government gets out a report. The G. P. O. 
prints it. Many departments get out a large number 
of bulletins or leaflets, to make immediately available the 
result of investigations or discovery. The G. P. O. 
prints them. Learned scientists in the Government are 
continually writing important books. The G. P. O. prints 
them. Literally thousands of different publications are 
made in vast quantities every year, many for free dis¬ 
tribution, all available at the cost of printing. 

Mechanically, the G. P. O. is perfection itself. Press 
rooms, composing rooms, bindery, are all of the most 
improved type, fireproof, beautifully lighted, scientifically 
arranged and capable of the maximum production at the 
minimum cost. Without spending a week or more in 
the one building it would be impossible to know it, but 
a trip through its more important rooms and activities 
will well repay any Noble interested in printing. 


SPONSORED BY 

J. HARRY CUNNINGHAM 


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PENSION OFFICE 


RAVELERS say the Pension Office in Wash- 
ington is the ugliest public building in the 
world. When told that it was fireproof, 
General Sheridan remarked “What a pity!” 
Its proportions are not to be compared with other Gov¬ 
ernment buildings, although it is the largest brick struc¬ 
ture extant, nor is its red brick so attractive as the 
white marble or granite of many other of Uncle Sam’s 
piles of masonry. 

But inside it is well worth seeing. The huge build¬ 
ing is a hollow shell, with a great court rising through 
three galleries to the roof, supported by two rows of 
enormous columns. In this court have been held those 
beautiful inaugural balls which have been tendered most 
incoming Presidents by the citizens of Washington, often 
attended by 20,000 people. 

A beautiful frieze in carved stone completely encircles 
the building, providing its only beauty from without. 
The carving commemorates the suffering and the bravery 
of the soldiers who fought in the Civil War. 

Here hundreds of clerks work constantly on pension 
applications, and through their efforts frauds are prevented 
and justice done the old soldier. 

About a million beneficiaries are carried on the rolls and 
the pension outlay is about $150,000,000 yearly. The 
visiting Noble should not confuse the Pension Office and 
its activities with the Veterans Bureau, which latter has 
exclusive jurisdiction in matters financial over veterans 
of the World War. 


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ALMAS TEMPLE DIVAN 


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FREER GALLERY 


ORTUNATELY for the Noble visitor, the great 
Freer gallery has just been opened to the 
public. As most art lovers know, this mag¬ 
nificent building, and the great collection 
arranged in it, are the gift of Charles L. Freer, of 
Detroit, who erected the building at a cost of $1,200,000 
during his lifetime and left two millions more to form 
a permanent endowment fund for this home of his own 
art collection and the addition to the contents of the 
building of more works of art. 

The offer to give this wonderful art collection to the 
nation, either as a gift direct or to the Smithsonian In¬ 
stitute, was in danger of being overlooked, and would 
have been, had not Mr. Roosevelt, learning of it, insisted 
upon the facts being made known. The gift has been 
accepted and the Freer gallery will in the future be a 
part of the Smithsonian Institute. 

The donor wished his name forever associated with 
the collection, specifying, however, that it should be 
“in some modest and appropriate form” and was par¬ 
ticular that his great collection be forever free to the 
public gaze; no admission fee is ever to be charged. 

Among other remarkable exhibits, the famous Peacock 
Room, made by Whistler for the shipbuilder Leyland, is 
here re-erected complete for the delight of art lovers. 

Little may here be said of the collection just put on 
public view; the enormous number of the art objects 
and their variety making a catalog here impossible. 

But when the Freer gallery becomes well known to 
the public, it will, for all time to come, be a Mecca for 
art students and lovers of the beautiful and one more 
haven of loveliness in the Capital City. 



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ALMAS TEMPLE PATROL 


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VETERANS BUREAU 


OMETIMES called the Arlington Building, the 
home of the Veterans Bureau is a huge struc¬ 
ture of Indiana limestone, ten stories high and 
occupying most of the block bounded by 
“H”, “I”, Sixteenth Streets and Vermont Avenue. 

The Veterans Bureau is that arm of the Government 
which assumed the duties of the War Risk Insurance 
Bureau and the Federal Board of Vocational Education, 
when the conflicting activities of these two organizations 
caused such hardship to the veterans of the World War. 

Here all matters pertaining to insurance, compensation 
for injury, and vocational training, hospitalization, etc., 
are cared for. The building contains little of interest to 
the visitor, but the associations which cling to its site 
will recall many a pleasant memory to those acquainted 
with the Washington of older days. 

The structure gets its name, Arlington, from the old 
Arlington Hotel, which once stood here. It was demol¬ 
ished in 1912 to make place for a newer and larger 
Arlington, a project later abandoned. The old Arling¬ 
ton Hotel was the heart of official Washington; in it 
every President stopped at one time or another from 
1870 to McKinley’s day, and its list of distinguished 
guests included such names as that of Henry Irving, 
Patti, Prince Fushimi of Japan, Emperor Dom Pedro of 
Brazil, President Diaz of Mexico, and Li Hung Chang. 

Nothing remains of the old Arlington but the name, 
but it is perhaps fitting that on the site where so many 
diplomatic tangles were unravelled and so many foreign 
policies shaped, now stands the home of the Government 
work which untangles the snarls and shapes to better 
ends the lives of soldiers who fought to make the world 
safe for Democracy. 



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WILLIAM MONTGOMERY 


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BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING 


O PUBLIC building in Washington, with the 
possible exceptions of the Museums, is more 
ideally arranged for the visitor than the home 
of this Bureau of the Treasury Department. 
When the present structure was built, housing the Gov¬ 
ernment’s machinery and workmen and women for the 
production of bank notes, bonds, revenue and postage 
stamps, arrangements were made to consider the com¬ 
fort and convenience of visitors. In the old brick build¬ 
ing many desired to watch for themselves the processes 
of making paper into money, but little could be seen, 
because of the difficulty of handling large numbers of 
visitors without interfering with the work. In the new 
building many of the work rooms have special visitors' 
galleries, from which the curious may watch the intri¬ 
cate processes without interfering in the least with the 
comfort of the workers. 

For many years the printing of all bank notes, green¬ 
backs and stamps was done entirely by hand. Now, 
however, much automatic machinery has been installed 
and stamps are printed much faster than was ever pos¬ 
sible by hand work. Moreover, stamps can now be 
produced in almost endless strips, which makes for the 
increased use of stamp vending machinery and letter 
stamping engines. 

Largely concerned with making currency and bonds, 
the Bureau handles all engraving work for the Govern¬ 
ment, such as Treasury drafts and certificates, disbursing 
officers’ checks, licenses, commissions, patent and pen¬ 
sion certificates, portraits of members of Congress author¬ 
ized by law, etc. 

The building cost nearly three million dollars and is 
generally conceded to be the model steel and copper 
plate printery of all the world. 



SPONSORED BY 

c. H. DIKEMAN 


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AMERICAN RED CROSS BUILDING 


N A GROUP of three beautiful buildings 
(American Red Cross, Continental Hall and 
Pan American Union), this memorial to the 
women of the Civil War first greets the 
visitor who goes south on 1 7th Street from the Avenue 
to enter the Speedway or Monument grounds. 

Immediately within the building, the visitor will read 

an inscription above the landing of the main stair¬ 
way. It recites 

A MEMORIAL 

BUILT BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES 
AND PATRIOTIC CITIZENS 
TO THE WOMEN OF THE NORTH 
AND THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH 
HELD IN LOVING MEMORY BY A NOW UNITED COUNTRY 
THAT THEIR LABORS TO MITIGATE THE SUFFERING OF 
THE SICK AND WOUNDERD IN WAR MAY BE FOREVER PERPETUATED 
THIS BUILDING IS DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF 
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. 

There is much here of interest, but the three-panel 
memorial of favrile glass, and the Mora painting “Thine 
is the Glory” based on a composite photograph of sev¬ 
eral hundred Red Cross workers in the world war, must 
not be overlooked. 

There is no need to tell what the Red Cross is, or 
stands for or does; none who have watched “the greatest 
Mother” at work, or felt the touch of her beneficent 
and loving hand, but will want to see for themselves 
the home in which she lives in the Capital of the Nation 
in which she was born, and where she has grown to be 
the greatest power for the relief of suffering the world 
has ever known. 



SPONSORED BY 

CHARLES STANLEY WHITE 


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CONTINENTAL MEMORIAL HALL 


MAGNIFICENT GROUP of three beautiful 
white marble buildings lie between the Cor¬ 
coran Gallery of Art, at 17th Street and New 
York Avenue, and the beginning of the Speed¬ 
way; these are the Red Cross Building, on the north, 
the Pan American Building, on the south, and Continen¬ 
tal Memorial Hall, in the center. 

This beautiful white marble structure has the distinc¬ 
tion of being the only building in the world planned, 
designed and financed entirely by women. It is the 
national home of the Daughters of the American Revolu¬ 
tion, that body of patriotic women who can trace their 
lineage back to ancestors of Revolutionary times. 

Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution 
must be “directly descended from an ancestor who, with 
unfailing loyalty, rendered material aid to the cause of 
independence as a recognized patriot, as soldier or sailor, 
or as civil officer, in one of the several colonies or states.” 
The society was organized in the Capital City in 1890, 
but has now a membership of many more than a hun¬ 
dred thousand. It has Chapters in practically every city, 
in all States, and in China, Cuba, Mexico and the Phil¬ 
ippines. 

The organization is an incorporated body, required by 
law to make an annual report to the Smithsonian Insti¬ 
tute, and thus recognized by the Government. Every 
year the society holds a convention, to which delegates 
come from all over the country. The President of the 
United States invariably welcomes them and opens their 
convention. 

The building cost $350,000, but could not be dupli¬ 
cated today for three times that sum. It is considered 
a beautiful example of the art of building. 



SPONSORED BY 

WILLIAM D. HOOVER 


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PAN AMERICAN UNION 


* ITS size and cost, this building has been 
characterized by eminent architects as the 
most beautiful building in the world. Blend¬ 
ing both the classical and the Spanish 
Renaissance type of architecture, it is a monument to 
that love of beauty which distinguishes the Latin races. 
It is the home of an organization of twenty-one Ameri¬ 
can Republics, devoted to the development and mainte¬ 
nance of friendly intercourse, commerce and peace among 
them all. 

Among its many functions are those of publishing a 
monthly bulletin describing the progress of the several 
republics, special reports, handbooks, maps, etc. It 
possesses a large library of over thirty thousand volumes 
relating to the South American countries. 

The main features of the building, besides its archi¬ 
tectural beauty, are the typical Spanish Patio or court¬ 
yard, and the imposing Salon, known as the Hall of the 
Americas. In the rear is a sunken garden, known as the 
Aztec Garden, with a triple arched loggia finished in 
tiling brought from ancient cities of Mexico and Peru. 

Externally, the building commands attention not only 
from its marble whiteness and its beauty, but for the 
landscape gardening which has made of a comparatively 
small area surrounding it a picture in marble, trees and 
grass. 

This building was used during the Peace Conference, 
and is immediately adjacent to the spot where Wash¬ 
ington’s jeweled Archway of Peace was erected. 

The building stands at the very entrance to the Speed¬ 
way and Monument grounds. It is open daily to visitors 
from nine-thirty A.M. until four P.M., Saturdays ex¬ 
cepted. 



SPONSORED BY 

MILTON HOPFENMAIER 


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THE GATEWAY 


visitor arriving in the Capital City by way 
the Union Station has nothing to complain 
in the character of edifice which welcomes 
n to the Capital of this nation, or the vista 
unfolded before his eyes when he steps from its portico 
and sees the Capital in the immediate foreground. 

For the Union Station is a wonderful example of 
station building, and its surrounding plaza and the 
grounds between it and the seat of the national legis¬ 
lature (when they are cleared of their last “war build¬ 
ings”) lend the perspective of an open setting to a 
monument worthy the attention of all. 

The great Concourse in the station is large enough 
to house the standing army of the Union. Ordinarily, 
the station is larger than is needed, even to care for the 
thousands of visitors who come and go in Washington 
daily. But every four years, when Inauguration time 
rolls around, the huge railroad portal is taxed to its 
capacity, and the session of the Imperial Council will 
keep it filled to overflowing for a week prior to and 
after our deliberations are over. 

This great building is provided with a southern outlet, 
not to be shown in any picture, since it is by way of a 
tunnel under the city—indeed, almost under the Capitol 
building itself—which leads tracks to the bridge across 
the Potomac, which makes that structure the portal to 
all the South. 

In the airplane view (this is an Army Air Service 
picture) the building immediately to the left of the sta¬ 
tion is the Post Office (elsewhere shown in this book) 
which is connected to the station by underground ways, 
so that the minimum of time is lost in the shipping out 
or taking in of mail. 



SPONSORED BY 


ANDREW LOFFLER 


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DISTRICT BUILDING 


ASHINGTON, D. C., is governed by three 
MkHU Commissioners appointed by the President 
with the approval of Congress. It has neither 
Mayor nor Alderman, wards nor elections, 
politics, city treasury nor corruption. Below the Com¬ 
missioners, however, its city government is like that of 
any other city in organization, and the various bureaus 
—Health Department, Fire, Police, School, Buildings, 
Streets, Refuse, Taxes, etc., must have a home. 

For many years the District Building was an inartistic 
eye-sore in an inaccessible part of the city. Now, how¬ 
ever, Washington, D. C., has a $2,000,000 “District 
Building” of Vermont white marble, corresponding to 
the “City Hall” of self-governed municipalities, which 
is surpassed in beauty by none. 

It faces north on Pennsylvania Avenue at Fourteenth 
Street, with the Washington Monument, Treasury, and 
White House for near neighbors. In front of it stands 
a life-like statue of that Governor Shepard, whose activi¬ 
ties have led the people to call him the Father of the City. 

The white marble building is one of the most promi¬ 
nent on “the Avenue,” itself the widest and most promi¬ 
nent street in Washington, and to those interested in 
civics and civic development, city planning and city 
government, it is a revelation in convenience. 

It has ample grounds and eventually will be surrounded 
by beautiful government buildings. For the plan of 
Washington includes the erection, upon the south side of 
the Avenue, of a notable group of public buildings. 
Many of the present structures are owned by the Gov¬ 
ernment, which rents them to their occupants until such 
time as it may be ready to wreck them and build noble 
piles of Masonry, which will some day make this the 
handsomest street in all the world. 


SPONSORED BY 

JAMES F. OYSTER 


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INTERIOR DEPARTMENT 


NE OF Washingtons newest governmental 
structures is the huge six-story, E-shaped 
building occupying the entire block bounded 
by 18th, 19th, E and F Streets N.W. which is 
the home of the Interior Department. 

This arm of the government includes the General 
Land Office, Reclamation Service, Geological Survey, 
Bureau of Mines, Office of Indian Affairs, Patent Office, 
Bureau of Pensions, Bureau of Education, National 
Park Service, and has also jurisdiction over certain 
quasi-governmental institutions. 

By no means all of these activities are in the Interior 
building; thus, Patents and Pensions both have their 
own homes. 

Few people realize the magnitude of the work of the 
Interior Department; the wonderful results of the 
Reclamation Service, turning deserts into flower gardens, 
and providing homes and happiness for thousands, 
without a cent of ultimate expense to the government; 
the preservation and extension of the National Parks, 
playgrounds for us all; the magnitude of the services 
of the Geological Survey, with its immense surveying 
and charting projects, resulting in maps which have no 
superior in all the world; the Bureau of Mines, which 
makes safe mines safer and unsafe ones better; which 
investigates and aids in mining methods and helps in the 
making available of our mineral resources; the Office of 
Indian Affairs which watches over the Indian tribes, 
the Land Office which has jurisdiction over our public 

land, not to mention Pension and Patents. 

•• 

Suffice it to say that the Secretary of the Interior holds 
a very important post in the Government, and his de¬ 
partment, touching every state, is one of the greatest, 
if not the greatest of the United States Government. 



SPONSORED BY 

FRANK H. ROWZEE 


Page Eighty-three 




















THE “CITY HALL” 


HE NAME above is quoted because it does not 
mean what it says. The “city hall” in your 
town is the home of the local government. 
In Washington that home is the “District 
Building.” The “city hall” is the home of the District 
Courts, the U. S. District Attorney, the U. S. Marshal, 
the Recorder of Deeds and the Registrar of Wills. 

The building, which was completely remodelled from 
a condition of neglect and ramshackle disrepair to the 
present up-to-date structure in 1917, is the third oldest 
government building in Washington, parts of it dating 
back to 1 826. 

Among the many famous trials which have been held 
here was that of Guiteau for the assassination of Presi¬ 
dent Garfield, in the old Pennsylvania railroad station 
at sixth and B Streets, where a silver star in the floor 
marked the spot where Garfield fell. 

The “city hall” or District Court House as it is more 
formally called, was the work of a young British archi¬ 
tect, George Hadfield. It is generally considered to 
have much architectural beauty, in spite of its severe 
simplicity, and its central section with its Ionic portico 
is held in especial esteem by artists. 

Immediately northwest of the “city hall” is the District 
Court of Appeals building, erected in 1910, and con¬ 
forming closely with the architectural style of the old 
building, so that the two form a harmonious whole. 

Nearby is a beautiful statue, not often given the 
appreciation it deserves. This is the monument to Albert 
Pike, poet, historian, soldier, statesman, and last, but 
by no means least, Mason; Mason famous for his work 
for the fraternity, and held in veneration by every mem¬ 
ber of a Scottish Rite Body in the world. 



SPONSORED BY 

EDGAR C. SNYDER 


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THE U. S. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM 

HE MEDICAL MUSEUM building is located 
at the east end of the Smithsonian Grounds. 
It covers 24,000 square feet of ground. 

The East wing contains collections of 
thousands of anatomical and pathological specimens 
placed on exhibition for the benefit of physicians, sur¬ 
geons, students, nurses and the general public. 

The main museum hall has a floor space of 7,600 
square feet, surrounded by a balcony. All this space 
is filled with cases stocked with exhibits, many of which 
show the effects of gun-shot wounds on the bones of 
amputated limbs of soldiers wounded in battle. 

Pathological speciments preserved in glass show effects 
on organs of the body by tuberculosis, typhoid fever 
and other diseases. 

One floor has exhibits of wax models showing in 
exact form and colors the appearance of wounds and 
different skin diseases. A department of ophthalmology 
contains an exhibit of charts and enlarged colored photo¬ 
graphs showing stages of every kind of eye disease. 

A department of microscopy contains a collection of 
265 microscopes showing the development from the 
earliest date of its invention to the high powered in¬ 
struments used today. There are also many mathe¬ 
matical measuring and recording instruments of a highly 
technical nature for use in aiding diagnosis of diseases. 

The West wing contains the medical library, 300,000 
rare old medical works which are priceless. 

Maj. Gen. R. E. Noble is the Librarian. Majors 
George R. Callender, J. F. Coupal and Capt. Theo. 
Bitterman are the Curators of the Museum and under 
the wise administration and fruitful efforts of these 
officers the institution has become the foremost of its 
kind in the world. 



PONSORED BY 

MONTGOMERY HUNTER 


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SPONSORED BY 

JOHN H. SMALL, III 




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CORCORAN ART GALLERY 


UCKY the city which has so patriotic a son as 
was William Wilson Corcoran, who gave to 
the public of Washington the gallery of art 
which bears his name. By the terms of his 
deed of gift the gallery is “to be used solely for the 
purpose of encouraging American genius in the pro¬ 
duction and preservation of works pertaining to the 
fine arts and kindred objects.” The deed of gift makes 
no condition, other than that the gallery must be open 
at least two days a week without charge to the public. 

The present building, at the corner of New York 
Avenue and 1 7th Street is the second home of the great 
collection, which was originally housed in a building 
at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 1 7th Street. 

All lovers of art here find much of interest and plea¬ 
sure. The various catalogues, which may be purchased 
at the gallery, list paintings, casts, marbles, bronzes 
and other sculptures. 

Passing the guarding bronze lions, the visitor enters 
the Central Atrium, a beautiful hall one hundred and 
seventy feet long by fifty feet wide, the ceiling sup¬ 
ported by forty fluted pillars. It is surrounded by 
eight smaller galleries. Upstairs is another atrium, also 
surrounded by galleries, and all are well filled with 
remarkable and beautiful examples of all the fine arts. 

In connection with the gallery is the Corcoran School 
of Art, which gives free instruction to art students who 
pay the ten-dollar entrance fee for the season. Many 
take advantage of this opportunity, and many distin¬ 
guished artists have called the Corcoran Art School their 
Alma Mater. 

In a semi-circular exhibition gallery are held, from 
time to time, special art exhibits for the benefit and 
pleasure of the public. 



SPONSORED BY 

CHARLES C. GLOVER 


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CATHEDRAL OF SS. PETER AND PAUL 


HIS great expression of the ideals of Chris¬ 
tianity in stone, will occupy, when com¬ 
pleted, one of the most, if not the most, 
commanding sites for such a monument in 
all the world. Mount St. Albans is nearly four hun¬ 
dred feet above the level of the Potomac, and over¬ 
looks the entire city of Washington. 

To cost ten millions of dollars when completed, the 
Cathedral is naturally not a project for a short space 
of time. So far, about one fourteenth of the whole 
edifice is finished; the Apse is completed, and Bethle¬ 
hem Chapel in the Crypt is finished. The building 
will be equal in size to York Minster or Canterbury 
Cathedral, but is not modeled after or in any way a 
copy of, any existing Cathedral in the old world. 

Its architecture is pure Gothic. Its architect, Mr. 
Henry Vaughan (who was laid to rest in the Crypt in 
1917) combined French and English motifs in its 
creation. 

The total length of the great building will be 500 
feet. Its width is 135 feet, with the Transept spreading 
215 feet. Its central tower will rise aloft 262 feet 
from grade, 644 feet above sea level. 

The Cathedral stands within a beautiful Close, with 
ample room for all the additional buildings, schools, 
chapels and other structures which may be necessary. 

The pictures illustrate the Apse, as completed, and the 
great Cathedral as a whole, as it will appear when fin¬ 
ished. Masons everywhere will be glad that so wonder¬ 
ful a testimony to those things for which the Masonic 
Order stands—Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of 
Man—is to grace the Capital of the Nation, and that 
Washington, the beautiful, is still more to deserve its 
name from the erection of this, to be the most magnifi¬ 
cent Cathedral between the oceans. 



SPONSORED BY 

JOHN POOLE 


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THE ARMY WAR COLLEGE 


HIS institution is on Greenleaf’s Point between 
the Potomac River and Anacostia River. The 
reservation was the site of a penitentiary 
erected in 1836, of which a portion still re¬ 
mains and is used as officers’ quarters. In this building 
were confined and tried by court martial the suspected 
conspirators in the assassination of President Lincoln, 
and nearby the guilty were executed. 

The cornerstone of the college building was laid in 
1903, and the structure has been occupied since 1907. 
The college prepares officers for the performance of im¬ 
portant general staff duties of responsibility and for the 
exercise of command of large units. The General Staff 
is concerned with the gathering of economic, political, 
sociological, geographical and military information re¬ 
garding all world states, its evaluation and interpretation, 
and with the enunciation and development of policies 
and plans for organization and training, for obtaining and 
caring for personnel, for equipment, supply and trans¬ 
portation. It also has to keep up-to-date plans for the 
successful prosecution of any wars possible to be thrust 
upon us. Its duty is to co-ordinate the efforts of other 
bureaus and departments and to supervise the execution 
of plans. The Commander, with the counsel of his 
staff, organizes his unit, makes plans and directs their 
execution in carrying out special missions. 

The college is a gathering of mature minds where 
opportunity is afforded under the guidance of specially 
qualified men to familiarize themselves with the best 
methods of performing such functions. Its students are 
highly selected men, averaging about 46 years of age, 
from the Regular Army, the National Guard, the Organ¬ 
ized Reserve, the Navy and the Marine Corps. 



SPONSORED BY 

FRANK L. WAGNER 


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NAVAL OBSERVATORY 


HIS institution, north of Georgetown, is perhaps 
more intimately connected with the lives of 
every American than any other Government 
bureau. For it is here that America gets its 
time, direct from the stars. As the name implies, the 
Observatory is a part of the Navy, for which it pub¬ 
lishes the nautical almanac, by means of which naviga¬ 
tion is made easier for those who go down to the sea in 
ships. But the work of the institution goes far beyond 
its service to the Navy. In addition to determining and 
transmitting, both by wire and wireless, the time, the 
Observatory checks up on and rates all the clocks, 
chronometers and watches used as navigation instru¬ 
ments in the Navy and conducts a great deal of impor¬ 
tant astronomical work besides. 

Here is located the great 26-inch refracting telescope 
with which the Moons of Mars were first seen of man 
by Professor Asaph Hall, the elder, in 1877. It is 
pleasant to find that Professor Asaph Hall, the younger, 
now presides over the destinies and work of the largest 
and finest telescope owned by the United States. 

There are a great many other astronomical instruments 
at the Observatory besides the great equatorial, housed 
each in its own building (there are fifty-three buildings 
on the reservation), all manned by a highly competent 
and learned corps of astronomers and naval officers. 

The institution is well worth a visit, if only to see 
“where the time comes from” and with what regularity 
and ship-shape care the Navy keeps the park in which 
its most important shore adjunct is located. 

Visitors must not be disappointed if they are unable 
to take a peep through the great equatorial. To use 
the telescope for the pleasure of visitors would keep the 
great instrument from serving science. 



SPONSORED BY 


W. R. F. HINES 


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CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL 



HIRTEEN PENNIES, the cherished treasures of 
little hands that can no longer play with them” 
formed the first donation to Washingtons 
Children s Hospital, now a great institution 
with 125 beds, caring for 2,125 patients last year. 

Designed originally for poor children up to 1 2 years 
of age, without distinction as to race, creed or color, 
recently private rooms have been added. 

A station of the Child Welfare Association, situated 
here, advises mothers in regard to babies who are now 
well, so that they may stay so. The Dispensary, which 
has grown from 99 cases in its first year to 7,640 cases 
last year, cares for the ailing or chronically ill child. 
The Dental Clinic, new last year, takes care of the teeth 
of hospital and out patients. A Nutrition class helps 
under-nourished children. A social worker follows up 
the children to their homes to see that the work begun 
is continued. 

The hospital is staffed by the leading physicians and 
surgeons of the District who give their services. It is a 
teaching center for the students of Washington s two 
medical colleges, maintains a growing training school for 
nurses, and provides special courses in children’s work 
to five other hospitals of the city, and near-by districts. 
Its X-ray department has developed special skill in radio¬ 
graphs of children. It is equipped with the most modern 
laboratory for the study of diseased tissues. It has a 
special room for premature babies, the smallest cared 
for last year weighing 1 /i pounds. 

The Mystic Shrine builds hospitals for children. Here 
is one already built and working, where any Noble not 
thoroughly “sold” on the idea, need go but once, and 
see ill babies being made well, to become what the Shrine 
as a unit already is; an enthusiast for hospitals for 
children. 


SPONSORED BY 


FRANK LEECH 


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MASONIC TEMPLE 


ASHINGTON possesses a number of Masonic 
Temples, several Lodges in outlying districts 
owning their own homes. It also has an “old’’ 
Masonic Temple, now no longer used by the 
Fraternity, the Scottish Rite bodies have their own 
Cathedral, and the A. A. S. R. for the Southern Juris¬ 
diction possesses the magnificent “House of the Temple’ 
elsewhere described. 

When “the’’ Masonic Temple is mentioned, it is the 
structure at the intersection of New York Avenue, Thir¬ 
teenth and “H” Streets which is meant. 

Not yet fifteen years old, the “new” Masonic Temple 
is already too small and out of date. Its several Lodge 
rooms, Chapter rooms and Commandery rooms are too 
few in number and too small in size to accommodate the 
Masonic growth which the Capital City has experienced. 
It is for these, among other reasons, that the Grand 
Lodge has acquired the beautiful Temple Heights site 
for the as yet unbuilt new Temple. 

No finer site for a Temple exists in any city than 
Temple Heights. For long an historic estate, it has 
become surrounded by the very flower of the city’s 
residential section and today is the only vacant plot of 
ground of such size, within the limits of the city proper, 
which could be considered as fit for a Masonic Temple. 

Visiting Nobles will find the present Temple of unusual 
interest because it is the home of the Grand Lodge with 
the smallest jurisdiction in the United States. The Grand 
Lodge of the District of Columbia has jurisdiction over 
territory of but sixty square miles, although, of course, 
its membership, in lodges and rank and file, is greater 
than that of many of the less thickly settled States. 

The Temple is “downtown” within easy reach of all 
car and bus lines and but a stone’s throw from the heart 
of the city. 



IN MEMORY OF 


DANIEL JOHNSON 


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MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME 



O NOBLE VISITOR will need explanation as 
to the purposes of this Masonic activity, for 
he will know all about the one in his own 
jurisdiction. The Home in the District of 
Columbia is the joint care and effort of the Masonic 
bodies and the Eastern Star chapters; to the latter all 
credit must be given for sponsoring and carrying through 
the project. 

The Home is a beautiful building, well furnished and 
occupying ample grounds. Its guests are most carefully 
and lovingly cared for, not only in a material way, but 
with frequent religious services conducted by the several 
lodges, and with entertainment supplied through them. 

Every year for ten years, the Almas Temple has put 
a baseball nine in the field, to compete for a mythical 
Masonic championship with a nine from Kallipolis 
Grotto, V. P. E. R. The proceeds of this game go to 
the permanent endowment fund of the Home, a sum 
which has grown from nothing to more than a hundred 
thousand dollars, because of the Masonic field day which 
this game serves to promote. Through the courtesy of 
Brother Clarke Griffith, President of the Washington 
Baseball Club, the fezzed teams are given free the use of 
the great stadium which is the Washington baseball park, 
and from twenty-five to thirty thousand Masons and 
their families come forth to cheer their favorites to 
victory, scarce caring who wins, so the fund of the 
Home grows for the comfort and care of our guests. 

The Home is small, compared to those in many 
States, because it draws guests only from the restricted 
territory of the District of Columbia, but in every other 
way, Washington Masons are proud to believe it the 
equal of any in equipment and the inferior of none in 
its hospitality to the members and families of the 
Craft it entertains. 


SPONSORED BY 

WARREN F. BRENIZER 


Page One Hundred and Three 







WASHINGTO 


Scout movement has had a great growth 
the Capital City. Four thousand scouts 
w wear the uniform and take the pledge. 
As most people know, the purpose of scout¬ 
ing is to promote the ability of boys to do things for 
themselves and others, to train them in Scoutcraft, and 
to teach them patriotism, courage, and self-reliance by 
placing emphasis upon the Scout Oath and Law for 
character development, citizenship training, and physical 
fitness. Scouting gives practical training in First Aid, 
Woodcraft, Camping, Signaling, etc., through which the 
boy unconsciously learns discipline, self-control, resource¬ 
fulness, reliability, and thoughtfulness. He learns to 
think and act effectively, to keep his head in an emer¬ 
gency, and to look after himself and the other fellow. 

A Scout learns team play, to be a “good sport.” Ser- 



SPONSORED BY 

L. A. SNEAD 






















DY SCOUTS 

vice is the foundation of Scouting. The Daily Good 
Turn is an integral part of the Scout program and de¬ 
velops from small things to great—from helping an old 
lady across an icy street to saving a comrade s life. 

Washington Scouts have a wonderful summer camp, 
known as Camp Roosevelt, located on the shore of 
Chesapeake Bay, four miles south of Chesapeake Beach, 
Md., 45 miles from the Capitol. The Camp owns fifty- 
eight acres of land, extending along the Bay for about 
one-third of a mile. The location is ideal, situated upon 
a high bluff overlooking the Bay, in the heart of a 
typical scouting country; away from civilization, in a 
wild section, where woods, hills, flowers, and wild life 
abound; with a fine, safe, sandy beach, affording good 
boating, bathing and fishing; and yet within easy reach 
of Washington at small expense. 


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HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE 



NI VERS ALLY conceded to be the most mag¬ 
nificent building devoted to fraternalism in all 
the world, this, the home of the Supreme 
Council, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite 
of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the 
United States, stands as a lasting monument to the glory 
and greatness of Masonry. 

The approach is by way of three, five, seven and nine 
steps. Thirty-three columns surround the central 
Cathedral room. Bronze inscriptions contain philosophies 
which strike a responsive chord in the hearts of all 
Scottish Rite Masons. The magnificent entrance hall 
or atrium leads to a “winding stairway,” which leads to 
the Cathedral, a lofty vaulted room seventy-five feet 
square and a hundred high, which, either by day or night, 
is so beautiful and so inspiring as fairly to take the be¬ 
holder’s breath. 


In the building are the offices of the Grand Com¬ 
mander and the Secretary General, the magnificent li¬ 
brary, with its hundred thousand of volumes, not only 
upon Masonic but upon all subjects, and its special col¬ 
lections (Burnsiana, Faust, Albert Pike manuscripts and 
mementoes of Albert Pike), an executive session council 
chamber which for pure beauty is unexcelled, a huge 
social hall, or central dining room, ample kitchen facili¬ 
ties for conducting a large banquet, many private dining 
rooms, and so on. 

At the corner of Sixteenth and S Streets, the House 
of the Temple is more uptown than down, but faces on 
the widest and most beautiful of Washington’s north- 
and-south streets. That it will be the Mecca for thou¬ 
sands of visiting Masons goes without saying. The 
building is open for the inspection of Mason and profane 
alike. 


SPONSORED BY 

ALMAS TEMPLE FLOOR TEAM 


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SUPREME COUNCIL BURNSIANA 

N THE magnificent House of the Temple, 
home of the Supreme Council of the Scottish 
Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Juris¬ 
diction of the United States, is a magnificent 
collection of Burnsiana; an honor to Burns, Bard of 
Freemasonry, and to Freemasonry, a collection which 
preserves knowledge and education. 

Robert Burns was born near “Alloway’s auld haunted 
hills,” on the banks of the Doon, Scotland, in a two- 
roomed cottage which his father had built with his own 
hands out of rough stone and clay, in 1759. “Deep in 
the common hearts of men his power survives,” for 
though he died in 1 796, his work lives forever. 

Burns’ Masonic record shows that he was made an 
Entered Apprentice on the 4th of July, 1781. On the 
l st of October following, he became a Fellow Craft 
member and the same night was raised to the Sublime 
Degree in St. David’s Lodge, Tarbolton, Scotland. Kil¬ 
winning Lodge of Edinburgh made him an honorary 
member, and St. Abbs Chapter of Eyemouth, made him 
a Royal Arch Mason. 

No greater honor was ever given to any Scotch Mason 
than the first toast given at a banquet, by the Grand 
Master of Scotland, in Edinburgh, on the 13th day of 
January, 1 788, “Caledonia and Caledonia’s Bard, Brother 
Burns! He ever met his mystic brothers on the level 
acted on the plumb and parted on the square!” 

“Then let us pray that come it may 
As come it will for a ’ that 
That sense and worth, o’er a’ the earth, 

May bear the gree, an’ a’ that, 

For a’ that, an’ a’ that, 

It’s coming yet, for a’ that 
That man to man, the world o’er, 

Shall brothers be for a’ that. ” 



SPONSORED BY 

FREDERICK W. MACKENZIE 


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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



LMOST opposite the Lincoln Memorial, a 
marble building is now in course of construc¬ 
tion, which, when finished, will probably prove 
as great an attraction to visitors as any in¬ 
stitution in the Capital City. 

It is the National Academy of Science Building, being 
erected by the scientists of the nation as a permanent 
monument to science. 

The building will be remarkable in many ways, but 
for none more than the wonderful plans made to exhibit 
continually those scientific experiments and demonstra¬ 
tions which most students have to take on faith, be¬ 
cause they are almost never performed. 

In the great central hall of the building will swing 
a Foucault pendulum, demonstrating day and night, to 
the curious, the revolution of the earth. First performed 
in the Pantheon, in Paris, it has been repeated a few 
times, but to most students of physics it is merely a 
picture and diagram in a text book. 

Here, too, the visitor will be afforded an opportunity 
to see both the analysis and the synthesis of sunlight, 
and, what is even rarer and more difficult for the average 
person to witness, a large camera image of the sun, its 
illumination so controlled that the sun spots can be seen 
with the naked eye and watched in their slow move¬ 
ment across the face of the orb of day. 

These and numerous other demonstrations, as well as 
a library, auditorium and museum, will, it is believed, 
make this national home of science a drawing magnet 
which will pull hard on the curiosity and desire for 
knowledge of all visitors, and serve as an education to 
all who visit it, as to the importance and the necessity 
of science in the lives of us all. 


SPONSORED BY 

ELMON J. EWING 


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U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 


HIS, the most influential of American business 
organizations, composed of about thirteen hun¬ 
dred separate business associations, is now 
erecting for itself a new home, to which, as 
soon as it is finished, it will move from its present 
quarters in the Mills Building, opposite the State, War 
and Navy Building. 

The new structure is being erected upon H Street just 
west of 16th. The design is by Cass Gilbert, and the 
estimated cost is $2,700,000. 

To make room for it, two famous old landmarks of 
Washington were torn down; the Stockton House and 
Corcoran House. 

The first of these, erected and first occupied by Com¬ 
modore Richard Stockton, was occupied successively by 
Thomas Ritchie, President Polks anti-Blair editor; Sen¬ 
ator John Slidell, of the Mason-Slidell episode; Gideon 
Welles, Lincoln s Secretary of the Navy; Daniel Lamont, 
Secretary of War for Cleveland; Russell A. Alger, Sec¬ 
retary of War for Harrison and the American Associa¬ 
tion of University Women. 

Corcoran House was the residence of Daniel Webster, 
who was here said to have planned and given a series 
of dinners to Lord Ashburton, in the process of negotiat¬ 
ing the Ashburton Treaty between the United States and 
Canada, which were so delicious and were “served in 
such fashion as made the noble peer s mouth water and 
his claims on the shores of Lake Champlain to relax!” 

Sic transit gloria mundi, and old buildings, no matter 
how historic cannot long withstand the pressure of 
modern business. These structures were long past their 
usefulness, and the great pile being erected by the 
U. S. Chamber of Commerce will serve not only that 
organization but the entire nation. 



SPONSORED BY 


WILLIAM T. GALLIHER 


Page One Hundred and Thirteen. 

















WASHINGTON MARKET 


HE GREAT brick structure which houses 
Washington’s largest market serves not only 
as a provision house, but to give the name 
“Market Space” to the adjacent open space 
formed by the intersection of C Street and Louisiana 
and Pennsylvania Avenues. 

The Market building itself covers two city squares, 
and has a huge hall, known as the Coliseum, above, as 
well as an upper section devoted to pool, billiards and 
bowling. In the Coliseum are staged carnivals, skating, 
dances, wrestling matches, drills and other indoor events. 

Washington Market, originally chartered by Congress, 
was opened in 1872. It covers two and a quarter acres, 
has 666 stalls inside and 1,000 market spaces. Its refrig¬ 
erating plant uses ten miles of brine pipe. 

Washington Market was originally Center Market, 
sometimes called Marsh or “Ma’sh” Market, because 
the site was originally a reed bird shooting marsh. 

Visitors from the south will find no especial interest 
in the “outside” market, but those from the north and 
west will perhaps find, in the various country wagons, 
with their negro drivers and owners, a picturesque sight 
worth seeing. Washington is the center of a truck 
garden region, many of the small farms being negro 
owned; hence the character of “hucksters” to be found 
outside the market walls. 

In “Market Space” may be found a drinking foun¬ 
tain, the gift of Dr. Henry D. Cogswell, of San Fran¬ 
cisco. Another “Market Space” landmark is the Ben¬ 
jamin F. Stephenson Monument, commemorating the 
projector of the Grand Army of the Republic, which 
organization gave the bronze sculptures of the monu¬ 
ment. Another is the equestrian statute of General 
Winfield Scott Hancock, a Congressional gift. 



SPONSORED BY 

A. J. SIMONS 


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OCTAGON HOUSE 

HIS famous old mansion is one of the most 
historic in the city. It was originally built 
for Col. John Tayloe, who, on Washington’s 
advice, erected here his home instead of in 
Philadelphia. 

It was a famous home of hospitality; its guests num¬ 
bered such distinguished visitors as Presidents Jefferson, 
Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, and such 
famous men as Decatur, Porter, Clay, Calhoun, Ran¬ 
dolph and Lafayette. 

The old house is now the home and property of the 
American Institute of Architects, which also gives 
quarters to the Archoeological Institute of America, the 
American Academy in Rome and the American Fed¬ 
eration of Arts. 

The office of the Secretary of the American Institute 
of Architects, once the private study of President Mad¬ 
ison, who with Mrs. Madison occupied the house after 
the destruction of the White House by the British in 
1814, was the room in which was signed the Treaty of 
Ghent, ending the War of 1812, on February 18, 1815. 

The house gets its name from its shape. It has a 
large central circular tower, flanked by two wings, 
which run backward, one along New York Avenue and 
one along 18th Street. 

The American Institute of Architects has most care¬ 
fully and lovingly restored the old house, retaining its 
architectural beauty and its charm of a by-gone age. 
First leasing, and finally buying the property, the In¬ 
stitute assures all interested in American history and its 
monuments that no ignoble use will ever be made of 
the building and that there exists no organization in 
the world more anxious to retain the loveliness of the 
building of the past than the present owners of the 
Octagon House. 



SPONSORED BY 

APPLETON P. CLARK. JR. 


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WASHINGTON AUDITORIUM 


HEN the Mystic Shrine pays its next visit to 
the Capital City, it will doubtless hold its 
Imperial Session in the Washington Audi¬ 
torium, now in process of construction; a 
building which will, after many years of unfilled need, 
give to the Nation’s city a meeting place adequate in size 
and facilities, to care for any gathering which may come 
here. 

Covering 30,260 square feet of ground, the new audi¬ 
torium will comfortably seat more than 6,000 people, 
with every one having a clear view of the stage. The 
stage opening is to be forty-three feet wide, twenty- 
seven feet high with a depth of forty-five feet, ample for 
any performance which may be held, even including 
grand opera. Nine dressing rooms, and twenty-four 
offices or committee rooms, ranging from sixteen feet 
square to fifty-seven by sixty-two feet, add to the con¬ 
venience of the hall. 

A large exhibition hall, which can be used either for 
display or banquet purposes, will occupy the ground 
floor, providing more than 25,000 square feet of floor 
space for exhibition purposes. Large ramps make access 
possible to delivery trucks which can get on the floor 
by their own power. 

The auditorium will cost approximately eight hundred 
thousand dollars, of which fifty thousand will be ex¬ 
pended for furnishings. 

The building is wholly a Washington enterprise, being 
built by subscriptions to the stock and bonds taken by 
Washington business men, who will control and man¬ 
age it in every particular. 



SPONSORED BY 

ROBERT N. HARPER 


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EPIPHANY CHURCH CHIMES 

URING the Imperial Council Session, thous¬ 
ands of visitors will have their attention 
arrested by the clear and beautiful bell tones 
of the Epiphany Church Chimes, fifteen bells 
erected to the honor and memory of the Rev. Randolph 
Harrison McKim, “beloved and honored rector of this 
church for thirty years, from 1888 to 1920’’ to quote 
the tablet in the vestibule of the memorial tower. 

The bells are unusual in several respects. While the 
key of the chimes as a set is C, the inclusion of an F 
sharp, C sharp and B flat bell makes it possible to play 
the chimes in the major keys of C, D, G, and F and 
their relative minors, an unusual range for bells. The 
set is also noted for being, at normal temperatures, ab¬ 
solutely in tune, concert pitch. 

The bells are bronze, seventy-eight per cent copper and 
twenty-two per cent tin. They are played, at present, 
from a lever-operated console beneath, with direct 
mechanical connection, but it is planned later to con¬ 
nect them electrically with the organ so that they may 
ring in unison with the same notes played on the organ 
console when desired. 

The largest, or “Great Bell” weighs 4300 pounds; the 
smallest, G, in the second octave, weighs 223 pounds. 
The total weight of all the bells is 18,390 pounds. The 
largest bell has a diameter of five feet, the smallest 
stretches 21 inches across. 

Not only the bells themselves, but the tower of 
Epiphany Church, is a memorial to Dr. McKim. The 
church itself is very old (1844) although of course, re¬ 
modelled many times. It stands with relation to Wash¬ 
ington, much as Trinity does in New York, a down-town 
church on valuable business property, too prosperous and 
much at home to move for any commercial blandish¬ 
ments which may be offered. 



SPONSORED BY 


ARTHUR L. SMITH 


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ST. ELIZABETH’S 


CURIOUS and interesting institution in Wash¬ 
ington is the Government Hospital for the 
Insane, commonly called St. Elizabeth’s. Few 
realize that an army of several thousand 
patients live here the year round. This great Govern¬ 
ment work endeavors to point the way back to sanity 
for those whose minds are unbalanced, or if it is im¬ 
possible to restore reason, to confine the unfortunates so 
they may do no harm to others, at the same time making 
them as comfortable and happy as possible. 

The criminally insane—that is, those with dangerous 
tendencies—are entirely separated from the harmless 
patients, whose minds are deranged. An expert staff 
is constantly in attendance, and a remarkable record of 
cures is made. 

The hospital is a national institute, specifically charged 
with the treatment of the insane of the Army and Navy, 
Marine Corps, Revenue Cutter Service, and Marine 
Hospital service. It also takes care of the insane who 
have received honorable discharge from these services, 
and the indigent insane from the District of Columbia. 

Visitors are admitted, and find this million-dollar in¬ 
stitution full of interest. 

The institution, which has many houses besides the 
main building, is beyond the Anacostia River overlook¬ 
ing the Potomac. It is but one of several institutions of 
a charitable, educational or mericiful character that the 
Government either supports or assists in supporting in 
the Capital City. Freedman’s Hospital, Howard Uni¬ 
versity, Columbia Hospital and many others receive aid 
from the Federal Government, which goes about its work 
for the betterment of the feeble and the ill as unostenta¬ 
tiously as it does any of its many humanely enterprising 
works for the benefit of all its people. 



SPONSORED BY 

ALMAS TEMPLE LOYAL LEGION 


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INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL MUSEUM 


HE proposed International Historical Museum 
will provide a non-political meeting ground 
for all civilized nations, where the historical 
background of all peoples of the world may 
be set forth by historical galleries of art, illustrating the 
development, culture and aspirations of each nation. 

Mural paintings, sculpture, mementos, portraits, pano¬ 
ramas, memorials, trophies, relics and records of each 
nation will here exemplify its life history, achievements, 
great men and great accomplishments which have con¬ 
tributed to the advancement of civilization, the liberation 
and amelioration of mankind, and the promotion o f his 
higher interests. 

Galleries will be permanently allocated to the par¬ 
ticipating nations, thus making a permanent historical 
exhibit made beautiful by means of the fine arts, and 
possessing a historical and an educational value of the 
highest order. 

The central building, or International Memorial Hall, 
for which a site near the new Memorial Bridge will be 
asked of Congress, will contain exhibits of international 
significance in the minds of mankind, as well as afford a 
meeting room for international gatherings. 

As yet, this Museum is but a project, but a glance at 
the picture of the proposed plan will show the curious 
what a wonderful addition it will be to the Capital and 
how well in keeping its designers have managed to make 
its form with those public buildings which will be its 
background. 

The International Historical Museum Association be- 
lieves the day of international co-operation has come 
to stay, and that it is the privilege and duty of America 
to take a leading part. It believes the proposed museum 
will do much to make such co-operation possible. 



SPONSORED BY 

ALMUS REED SPEARE 


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THE “REPRESENTATIVE” CHURCH 


E Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal 
Church, South, is located at the corner of 
Massachusetts Avenue, K and Ninth Streets 
N.W. While this Church is better known 
locally as the Mount Vernon Place Church, it is known 
outside Washington as the Representative Church. 

It is called the Representative Church because it 
represents Methodism, especially its own branch of 
Methodism, in the National Capital. It is not. therefore, 
a purely local institution. In the construction of this 
Church all Southern Methodism had a part. While the 
local congregation made its contribution, contributions 
also came from every Southern State. It is, therefore, 
an enterprise in which the whole Church is vitally in¬ 
terested. 

The decision to build the Representative Church in 
Washington was reached by the General Conference 
that met in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1906. 

The Church was opened for use in September, 1918. 
Since that time its growth has been little short of mar¬ 
velous. More than twenty-two hundred have been 
received into its membership. Overflowing congrega¬ 
tions have thronged it at both morning and evening 
services. 

For the past three years an overflow service has 
been held in the Sunday School room every Sunday 
morning. There is hardly a service when almost every 
State in the Union is not represented, and during the 
year people from almost all nations of the earth are 
among its worshippers. 

Visiting Nobles are assured a hearty, fraternal and 
Christian welcome. 



SPONSORED BY 

C. C. CHAPPELL, PASTOR 


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PEACE MONUMENT 



ASHINGTON among other things for 

its many statues. Many of these are beauti¬ 
ful, but some leave something to be desired, 
as in the case of the Peace Monument, which 
stands at the beginning of the stretch of Pennsylvania 
Avenue which separates the Capitol and the Treasury. 

This monument is found wanting by art critics, not 
that both pedestal and the statue surmounting it are in 
themselves unbeautiful, but because they do not fit. 
The group, which is erected to the ‘ Officers, Seamen 
and Marines of the U. S. Navy who fell in defense of 
the Union and Liberty of their country, 1861-65,” was 
intended for a simple pedestal at Annapolis. They cost 
$16,000. Later it was decided to bring them to Wash¬ 
ington, and Congress gave an additional $25,000. But 
the figures were finished, so the money was spent for 
the disproportionately large pedestal which makes the 
figures somewhat less impressive than they otherwise 
would be. 


The statues show America sadly counting up her 
losses, while History expresses the thought “they died 
that their country might live.” On the western front is 
Victory, flanked by infants, representing Neptune and 
Mars, and facing the Capitol is Peace extending an olive 
branch. 

The group is generally referred to as commemorating 
the peace and the historic review of the Union forces, 
but it was not finished and put in place until 1877. 

Whatever may be the failure of the Peace Monument 
from an artistic standpoint, it is beloved of Washing¬ 
tonians, who are prone to associate it with every civic 
celebration which begins or ends with a parade or pro¬ 
cession, since it is here that the head of the parade first 
swings into view as it comes into the Avenue. 


SPONSORED BY 


NEJIB HEKIMIAN 


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HAHNEMANN MEMORIAL 


ACING beautiful Scott Circle, standing at the 
junction of Rhode Island and Massachusetts 
Avenues, is the Hahnemann Memorial, erected 
by the American Institute of Homeopathy in 

1900. 

This lovely tribute stands in the front rank of those 
examples of the art of sculpture and architecture which 
give the Capital City its pseudonym of “City of Statues.’’ 
The Memorial has a semi-circular exedra, in a central 
recess of which is a bronze statue of the father of home¬ 
opathy. The statue is seated; below it is the Latin 
phrase “Similia similibus curentur” (Likes are cured by 
likes). 

Right and left of the statue are four bronze reliefs 
showing the great scientist as student, chemist, teacher 
and practicing physician. 

In addition to its own undoubted beauty, this monu¬ 
ment has as exquisite a setting as any in the city. Scott 
Circle, around which traffic flows from Massachusetts 
and Rhode Island Avenues, Sixteenth and N Streets, 
which here cross, contains in its acre area a statue of 
General Winfield Scott, cast from metal taken in the 
form of cannon in the Mexican campaign. Beyond the 
circle and occupying a position similar to that of the 
Hahnemann Memorial is a statue of Daniel Webster. 

Both the Memorial and the Webster statue stand in 
little parks; the Circle itself is green and tinted with 
many flowers; Massachusetts Avenue from Fourteenth 
to Fifteenth Street on the north is a terrace, all a garden 
and three of the four streets which converge at Scott 
Circle are unusually wide and lined with handsome struc¬ 
tures, so that the Hahnemann Memorial keeps statued 
watch over Washington in its most beautiful aspect, and 
with its own dignity and loveliness adds to that beauty. 



IN MEMORY OF 

SAMUEL HAHNEMANN 


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“SENATORS” BALL PARK 


O LOVER of the great American game will 
need to be told that it is not the United 
States Senate which has a ball park, but a 
collection of athletes who are always going 
to win the pennant in the American league! 

But if Washington doesn’t have the glory of a pennant 
team, it has a fine park, a well beloved president of its 
ball club, and has, from time to time, had great players 
upon its rolls, notably Win Mercer of a by-gone age, 
and Walter Johnson, pitcher extraordinary. 

Many visitors will see the huge stadium, not only 
in use for the purpose for which it was built, but as 
the setting for the massed band concert, when Nobles 
Sousa and White will alternately lead the hundred 
bands of all Shrinedom, playing as a unit. 

As the picture of this year’s opening game shows, 
the plant can accommodate a lot of people; a careful 
count, which any reader may verify for himself shows 
that 26,743 people are present in this picture! 

The interested beholder may recognize that well 
known ball fan, Warren G. Harding, and Mrs. Harding, 
President of the Ball Club Clark Griffith, “Donnie’ 
Bush, erstwhile pepper-pot at shortstop for the Detroit 
Tigers and now manager for Washington, Secretary of 
Labor Davis, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, 
and Chairman of the Shipping Board Albert D. Lasker. 

It is pleasant here to say that President Clarke Griffith 
has demonstrated many times the possession of some¬ 
thing not necessary to the game, i. e., a heart. And so 
the great stadium is often the scene of benefit games for 
various charities, and has always been the arena in 
which Masonic teams fought each other with bat and 
ball for the benefit of the endowment fund of the 
Masonic and Eastern Star home. 



SPONSORED BY 

CLARK C. GRIFFITH 


Page One Hundred and Thirty-three 








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“THE AVENUE” 


ASHINGTON has many avenues, wide streets 
which run at angles to its north and south 
and east and west streets, making travel from 
point to point easier and shorter for those 
who know the city. But there is only one which is 
The Avenue—and that is Pennsylvania Avenue, the 
widest street in the world. 

One hundred and sixty feet from curb to curb, in its 
stretch between the Capitol and the Treasury (a mile 
and a quarter) this is the historic playground for pro¬ 
cessions, pageants and celebrations of all kinds. It was 
this street up which marched the Union Army prior 
to disbanding after the peace of ’65. It was this street 
which saw the historic procession of the victorious forces 
of the Spanish War. Up this stretch marched the boys 
of the A. E. F. when they came home, and here, too, 
was the scene of the last journey of the Unknown 

Soldier. Here is held the Inaugural procession, every 
four years, when a President is honored as he travels 
from the Capitol, where he takes the oath of office, to 
the White House, from in front of which he reviews 
the parade which expresses the feeling of America for 
her Chief Executive. 

And, of course, it is this street up which the several 
parades which are a part of the Imperial Council Session 
will be held, and this street, also, will be the great 

Ball Room on which a quarter of a million people will 

dance, to the music of a massed band, the strains of 
which will be heard its entire length by means of elec¬ 
trical amplifiers. 

There is much in Washington of historic interest; 
nothing more so than this stretch of pavement, so inti¬ 
mately associated with all that is vital in American 

history. 



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PERCY CRANFORD 


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THE ELLIPSE 



HE “White Lot” or Ellipse, lying immediately 
south of the White House is the scene of 
many activities peculiar to Washington. Here, 
for instance, is the overflow from Easter Mon¬ 
day Egg Rolling, a ceremony dear to the hearts of 
Washington children, when the President throws open 
his grounds that little tots may roll their Easter eggs up 
and down his carefully kept lawns. 

On the Ellipse amateur teams play baseball (it is big 
enough for four games at once). Here the Marine Band 
plays late afternoon concerts during the warm weather, 
and all Washington spreads newspapers on the grass and 
sits down to listen. 


Here, too, are held those exhibitions of fireworks, 
which spread to the night the glory of a new administra¬ 
tion when Inauguration Day comes to an end; here the 
Washington High School Cadets hold their annual regi¬ 
mental review, and here, by the thousand, congregate 
department clerks at noon to eat their luncheon. 

Hidden away among the trees bordering the Ellipse 
is a simple little monument dear to the hearts of Masons. 
It commemorates the memory of two men lost on the 
ill-fated “Titanic,” Archibald Butt, aide to Presidents 
Taft and Roosevelt, and Francis David Millet. 

Brother Archibald Butt was an earnest and sincere 
Mason, and the accounts brought of his behavior on the 
“Titanic,” the way in which he helped the women and 
the children into the boats, his calm courage and his 
smiling greeting to a noble death have left his memory 
vivid and dear to the Masons of the Capital City. 

Just beyond the Ellipse on 1 7th Street are stone pillars, 
upon which are dates when the Potomac went upon a 
rampage and flooded the city; the dates are inscribed at 
the height the flood reached. 


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JOHN L. FRAZIER 


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MARINE BAND 


HE United States Marine Corps, organized 
1798, included 16 drummers and 16 fifers 
known as the Marine “Musics.” 

About 1800 the Commandant, Major Wil¬ 
liam Ward Burrows proposed to the Secretary of the 
Navy, B. Stoddert, that the Marines organize a band, 
which could be placed under the instruction of the Drum 
or Fife Major. When the Secretary approved, recruiting 
officers were ordered to send to Headquarters all recruits 
who could play a musical instrument. 

The band had no official status until President Lincoln 
affixed his signature to an Act of Congress providing 
for the United States Marine Band, to consist of one 
principal musician and thirty classified musicians, the 
first official band in the military service of the country. 

Col. Charles Heywood, Commandant of the Marine 
Corps, in 1899, recommended that the membership of 
the Marine Band be increased. In 1899, President Mc¬ 
Kinley, signed an Act of Congress providing a leader, a 
second leader and sixty classified musicians. This was 
augmented on August 29, 1916, to a leader, a second 
leader, 10 principal musicians and 55 classified musicians 
which is now the official strength of the Marine Band. 

The Marine Band has played at the White House for 
every President since Washington, and is known as the 
“President’s Band.” It has been the nation’s represen¬ 
tative band at many national and international affairs; 
has toured the country and played concerts in every 
State of the union. Its concerts, given for generations 
during the summer months on the White House lawn, 
the Capitol plaza and the Marine Barracks, are great 
attractions of the Capital, and visitors to this beautiful 
city deem a sight-seeing tour incomplete without seeing 
or hearing the famous United States Marine Band under 
the leadership of Noble William H. Santelmann. 



SPONSORED BY 

WILLIAM H. SANTELMANN 


Page One Hundred and Thirty-nine 











THE SPEEDWAY 



ASHINGTON’S river-front drive vies with that 
of any other city in the world, more than six 
miles of roads running along the waters of the 
Georgetown Channel of the Potomac, the 
Washington Channel and the Tidal Basin. 

Here is unfolded picture after picture. Glimpses of 
the great Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where the 
currency is made, the Monument, silhouetted against the 
sky line, the Lincoln Memorial, the War College, the 
Naval Air Station, Arlington, the Navy Wireless towers, 
all combine to make the drive of great interest. The 
roads are lined with the wonderful Japanese cherry trees, 
eighteen hundred of them, which in spring make this 
drive more glorious in color than any in the land. 

Here are held band concerts, polo and lacross games, 
sometimes special flying stunts are staged here, and all 
Washington parks its automobile along the sea wall in 
hot summer evenings to catch what cooling breeze may 
blow off the water. 


In winter the Basin, when frozen, gives a wonderful 
stretch of ice for skating; bridges are laid from the 
wall to the ice, because the ice is always broken at the 
wall by the tidal rise and fall. Skating is never per¬ 
mitted except the ice reaches sufficient thickness with the 
result that skating accidents from breaking ice are few 
and far between. 


Between the roads leading down to and returning 
from Haines Point, is a camping ground where the “tin 
can tourist’’ as the automobile camper is most disrespect¬ 
fully called, may park his car, erect his tent, and visit 
the Capital without paying hotel bills. And many of 
them do take advantage of these fairly accessible and 
central camping grounds, as any visitor may see for 
himself. 


SPONSORED BY 


BENJ. R. BUCK 


Page One Hundred and Forty-one 















BATHING BEACH 


ASHINGTON goes swimming in the Tidal 
Basin, the tidal overflow of the Washington 
channel of the Potomac River. 

Here, on a made beach of sand, thousands 
disport themselves in the cool water on hot days. Life 
guards, life lines and floats make the procedure safe, 
and comfortable dressing rooms for both men and 
women make the sport a pleasure. 

A small fee is charged for bath house and for suit 
and towel, but bathers may bring their own togs if 
they prefer. 

Noble L. Gordon Leech, in charge of the beach, makes 
a feature of aquatic events every year. There are diving 
and swimming contests for all classes of contestants. 
In addition to these events, it is possible for Washing¬ 
ton’s youth here to learn to swim, without following the 
historic advice of the mother who told her daughter to 
“hang her clothes on a hickory limb, but don’t go near 
the water!” 

So efficient has the life guard force become, and so 
prompt are they both to render aid to those in distress 
and to use artificial respiration methods on those who 
become unconscious before rescue, that fatalities have 
been reduced practically to zero. Especial care is taken 
of children, who throng the beach in large numbers. 

Special hours are reserved for ladies and escorts alone, 
in the early morning, although many women swim dur¬ 
ing the open hours. 

The beech is open all summer, from the first day 
when Potomac water temperature rises high enough to 
intrigue the swimmer to the end of the season when cold 
drives away the last enthusiast. 

Rest rooms, a pavillion and refreshment stands are 
a part of the service at this popular resort. 



SPONSORED BY 

L. GORDON LEECH 


Page One Hundred and Forty-three 















PUBLIC GOLF 


OBLE devotees of the game wili find three 
public links in Potomac Park. They were 
laid out by William J. Travers, former Golf 
Champion of the United States. 

The links are 9 holes each and have unique and 
pleasant surroundings but are deficient in natural hazards 
of any great variety, Potomac Park being almost en¬ 
tirely made up of land reclaimed from swamp area by 
river dredging and therefore as flat as the proverbial 
flounder. 

Two club houses, maintained by the park authorities, 
provide dressing rooms and showers, for both men and 
women, for which a nominal charge is made. 

In spite of their flatness, the golf courses—which have 
a thousand acres of land for their location—are ex¬ 
tremely popular and men, women and children who 
would otherwise have no opportunity to play, because 
of distance from country club links and transportation 
difficulties, here congregate in large numbers, 155,000 
playing there in 1922. It is a rule of play of these 
courses that any ball hooked into the Potomac River is 
lost! 

No other golf course in the world is surrounded by 
Japanese cherry trees, of which these courses have 
eighteen hundred, given to the nation by the Mayor of 
Tokio, and planted about the park along the road in 
1912. When they bloom, which they do early in the 
spring, the sight is beautiful beyond description, and 
attracts thousands of visitors; so much so that on the 
first few days of their flowering, special traffic rules 
must be made to care for the continuous stream of 
automobiles which carry the beauty lovers to this trans¬ 
plantation of the Orient to the Occident. 



SPONSORED BY 

S. C. LOEFFLER, JR. 


Page One Hundred and Forty-five 





BOLLING FIELD 


HIS great Army air station is the “hop off” for 
many of those Army aerial manoeuvers, en¬ 
durance trials, tests and contests which keep 
Army fliers upon their toes and make the air 
service the progressive and up-to-date service it is. 

Which is fitting, for Washington was the scene of the 
very first experiments which any Army ever tried out in 
the air. The United States Army was the first ever 
officially to test an air plane, or buy one, or to make 
official use of the dirigible balloon. 

From the early days of the first Wright flights, con¬ 
ducted by the Army at Ft. Myer, Va., in 1908, to the 
World War, the Army has been intensely interested in 
aviation. Small appropriations and lack of public and 
Congressional faith in the importance of Army air work 
made the service of small extent up to the time the 
Allies asked of America a tremendous air program. 
But the Army showed it knew the air, even though it 
had little, and the record of the Air Service in the great 
war is one of which every American can be, and is, 
proud. 

So Bolling Field, which, while only one of many 
Army flying fields, is that one closest to Army head¬ 
quarters, and more perhaps in the public eye than many 
others on account of being so close to the government 
in general and the Congress in particular, should be a 
magnet towards which many a Noble visitor will 
gravitate. 

Those interested in aviation from the war and his¬ 
toric standpoint will find Wright’s first plane in the 
National Museum, and a complete exhibit of both Army 
and Navy planes, as used in war, in the special air 
craft exhibit building which is immediately in the rear 
of the Smithsonian Institute. 



SPONSORED BY 


JOHN H. WILKINS 


Page One Hundred and Forty-seven 








WHITE HOUSE SHERMAN STATUE ELLIPSE 












FROM THE AIR 


HE visitor to the top of the Washington 
Monument gets a view of Washington not 
dissimilar from that here shown (which was 
taken from an Army airplane near the monu¬ 
ment). In the immediate left foreground is the great 
pile which is the State, War and Navy Building, and to 
its right the “White House.” Next beyond that is the 
huge United States Treasury. Various other buildings, 
by which the reader may orient himself are indicated 
by the marginal notes. He will find the Treasury Annex, 
the Masonic Temple, the Washington, Willard and 
Raleigh Hotels, the District Building, Pennsylvania 
Avenue, several parks, indeed, the whole down-town 
section of the city can easily be identified from this 
remarkable view; ask some Washingtonian to go over 
it and see what can be found! 

Attention is called to the baseball diamonds in the 
circle at the right foreground. This circle—which isn’t 
called by that name, but is known as the White Lot or 
the Ellipse—is dedicated to public play of all sorts. Big 
enough for four baseball games at the same time, it is 
also large enough for a regimental review, and sees at 
least one such every year when the President reviews 
the Washington High School Cadets. 

Here, too, the Marine Band gives public concerts all 
summer long, a special band stand being erected then 
for the purpose and the audience collecting around the 
Ellipse in automobiles and upon the grass. 

Visitors to the Nation’s Capital are usually impressed 
by the shade trees of Washington; this picture gives a 
good idea of their disposition even “down town.” 
Washington summer heat is much ameliorated by the 
grateful shade cast by the thousands of trees which line 
its residence streets from end to end. 



SPONSORED BY 


JOHN H. WALLER 


Page One Hundred and Forty• 




















SOLDIERS' HOME 


WELVE and a half cents a month is a very 
small sum of money, yet that amount taken 
from the pay of every soldier in the Army, 
forms the greater part of the income of the 
National Soldiers’ Home in Washington. Here, in a 
beautiful 51 2-acre park of many fine roads, lakes, hills, 
vistas and gardens are dormitories, executive buildings, 
chapel, theater, library, amusement places, dining halls, 
hospital, stables, farm houses, etc., of a most elaborately 
designed community of old soldiers. Any honorably dis¬ 
charged soldier of twenty-year service or any disabled 
soldier is eligible to the home. It can accommodate 
1,000 guests. 

One of the curiosities of the spot is the Capital Vista, 
which, accidentally discovered, is most carefully kept 
open. Through a wilderness of trees, the dome, only, of 
the United States Capitol, five miles away, may be seen, 
apparently at the farther end of a small round green 
tunnel, and only through this particular little vista is the 
dome visible from anywhere within the grounds. 

The soldier guests are well cared for, not only in a 
material way, but in concerts, plays, amusements, books, 
etc. Many visitors to the Capital City take the oppor¬ 
tunity to drive through this national homestead to see 
one of the most beautiful examples of landscape garden¬ 
ing and artistic country home making in the nation. 

The annual income of the Home is about a quarter 
of a million dollars; it gets its funds not only from the 
pittance subtracted from enlisted men’s pay, but from 
money which would otherwise be due deserters, from 
fines, from the sale of the unclaimed effects of soldiers 
who die, and interest on a surplus fund of four million 
dollars which draw three per cent interest from the 
Government. 



SPONSORED BY 

S. FRANKLIN GARDNER 


Page One Hundred and Fifty-one 





























ZOOLOGICAL PARK 


T IS fitting that the Capital of the Nation 
should possess the largest zoological park of 
any national capital. The one hundred and 
seventy-five acre tract of land which affords 
a home to the Nation’s collection of wild animals, birds 
and reptiles is the largest of any in the world, excepting 
only that in New York City. 

About 1 700 animals are now on exhibition. Many 
species rarely seen in captivity thrive in the ideal con¬ 
ditions here provided. 

Of special interest are many rare and unusual animals, 
some of which have never been otherwise shown in the 
zoological gardens of America. Such rare animals in¬ 
clude the Glacier Bear, or Blue Bear, of the Mount 
Saint Elias Alps, the only living specimen of this bear 
ever captured; the Aard-wolf and Great eared Fox of 
Africa; the Snow Leopard and Panda of the Himalayas; 
the Cheetah, or Hunting Leopard, of Africa and India; 
the Red Ouakari and other rare monkeys from the in¬ 
terior forests of Brazil; the Mountain sheep and White 
Goats from the Rockies; Musk-oxen from Greenland; 
and many rare and little-known birds from South Amer¬ 
ica, Africa, Asia, and the islands of the Pacific. 

Many animals are kept in something approaching 
their natural habitats. Thus, wolves have dens, and 
antelopes have hillside runs, the bison and the llama 
can roam outdoors, the bears have rocky caves and the 
beavers and otters a stream to swim in and dam if they 
will. A huge outdoor bird cage gives flying room to 
many birds, and the elephant has his outdoor bathing 
pool and heavy iron-barred fence. 

The Zoo is easly reached by several entrances and car 
lines, but can best be seen via automobile. The park is 
immediately adjacent to, and connects with, the National 
Park (Rock Creek Park). 



SPONSORED BY 


VICTOR J. EVANS 


Page One Hundred and Fifty-three 










ROCK CREEK PARK 


ISCOUNT JAMES BRYCE said of this won¬ 
derful stretch of country, “To Rock Creek 
Park there is nothing comparable in any 
capital city in Europe. What city in the 
world is there where a man can, within a quarter of an 
hour on his own feet, get in a beautiful rocky glen, such 
as you would find in the woods of Maine or Scotland— 
a winding rocky glen with a broad stream foaming over 
its stony bed, and wild leafy woods looking down on 
each side, where you not only have a carriage road at 
the bottom, but an inexhaustible variety of foot paths 
where you can force your way through thickets and test 
your physical ability in scaling the faces of bold cliffs?” 

Sixteen hundred and six acres of forest and stream, 
through which wind miles and miles of fine automobile 
roads, make a pleasure drive unequalled in any city in 
the land. Those in authority have shown great wisdom 
in leaving virgin timber stand as it grew, in doing little 
or no “landscape gardening” but letting nature herself 
lay out the vistas and the beauty spots. 

Of course, the hand of man has had to work some 
changes; thus, the old Joaquin Miller Cabin, erected by 
the Poet of the Sierras, has been moved from its original 
site and set up in the park; bridges have had to be made 
at times across the creek, but they are inoffensive, quaint 
and curious stone structures; old landmarks such as 
Pierce’s mill have been carefully preserved. 

The great playground where all Washington drives 
and picnics and its juvenile contingent goes swimming 
and skating, is wild; wild as it was before America was 
discovered, and consequently, beautiful as no formal 
man-made garden spot can ever be beautiful. 



SPONSORED BY 

JOHN W. THOMPSON 


Page One Hundred and Fifty-five 











ALONG THE POTOMAC 

NE of the historic rivers of America, the 
Potomac has much of wild beauty to show the 
nature lover. Below Washington a broad and 
placid body of water on which many steam 
vessel ply, above Washington the river narrows, to flow 
through the Palisades, rocky bluffs, through woods, and 
over two sets of falls. 

Little Falls, not far above Washington, may be seen 
from the Conduit Road, so called because it follows 
the line of the water tunnels which bring water to the 
city from the dam above Great Falls. 

The Great Falls of the Potomac are beautiful in the 
extreme. They are reached by electric cars going up 
through the country on the Virginia side, or by auto¬ 
mobile and a short walk, going through Maryland. 
Around Great Falls, George Washington surveyed a 
canal, and the remains of this old ditch, and the cut¬ 
tings and some of the stones for the locks of his am¬ 
bitious project still remain, used now only as subjects for 
amateur photographers. 

Along the Potomac, and the C. and O. Canal which 
parallels it, are hundreds of summer camps, where 
Washington s nature, canoe and outdoor lovers spend 
spare time, some in tents and many in permanent 
camps with well constructed summer homes overlook¬ 
ing the water. Several canoe clubs also have their 
homes along the old waterway. 

The Potomac above Washington is an unquiet body 
of water, which sometimes goes upon the rampage and 
produces a flood of very respectable proportions; a rise 
of thirty feet at Harper’s Ferry, sixty miles from the 
city, has been seen, which makes the River at George¬ 
town decidedly uncomfortable for waterside interests. 



SPONSORED BY 


FRED A. SPICER 


Page One Hundred and Fifty-seven 











DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

N ELEVEN-STORY brick building at the 
corner of 19th Street and Pennsylvania 
Avenue, houses the Department of Com¬ 
merce, which must not be confused with the 
Interstate Commerce Commission, quite a different or¬ 
ganization. 

The Department of Commerce functions through sev¬ 
eral Bureaus, of which one of the most important is the 
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; among 
other activities it publishes a most important paper, 
which gives to commercial interests in this country the 
latest information of foreign trade and markets. 

Another Bureau of great interest to us all is that of 
Lighthouses. For the United States, with its ten thou¬ 
sand miles of coast line, has the largest, best equipped 
and most efficient lighthouse service of any nation of 
the world, and never a “light-due’’ is charged a vessel 
using any of it, be that vessel domestic or foreign. 

The Bureaus of Navigation and of Steamboat Inspec¬ 
tion here have their homes, and work out their purposes 
of making the lives of those who go down to the sea 
in ships safer and easier. 

The Interstate Commerce Commission, located a block 
to east, is the home of that government organization 
empowered by Congress to examine into the manage¬ 
ment and business of all common carriers. All inter¬ 
state commerce is under its jurisdiction. It shares noth¬ 
ing with the Department of Commerce except the name. 
Here rate regulation is accomplished, and here, too, a 
little known work of examination into the cause of rail¬ 
road accidents, with their resulting recommendations, 
making railroad travel safer and therefore less expensive. 



SPONSORED BY 


P. A. DRURY 


Page One Hundred and Fifty- 





KEY BRIDGE 


O NAMED, not because it is a “key” to the 
city of Washington, but because its Washing¬ 
ton terminus is at the site of an old brick 
house which was the home of Francis Scott 
Key, author of the Star Spangled Banner. 

This new bridge, which was opened for traffic this 
year, connects Georgetown, D. C., and the Virginia 
shore. It is the main line for vehicular traffic bound for 
Arlington National Cemetery and Ft. Myer, the Naval 
Radio Station and outlying Virginia suburbs. It is one 
of three highway bridges which connect the Capital 
City with Virginia, the others being the “Chain Bridge” 
to the north, and the ‘‘Highway Bridge” to the south. 

The airplane picture, made by the Army, shows to 
the left the old or Aquaduct Bridge. 

In the middle distance are the buildings of George¬ 
town College, and to the right a portion of old George¬ 
town. Georgetown, now a part of the city of Washing¬ 
ton, and divided from the city by Rock Creek, was for 
many years an independent municipality, but has long 
since merged with the larger civic unit, only retaining 
the name as a matter of convenience. 

The Key Bridge passes over the terminus of the old 
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, built in the eighteen-thirties 
to bring coal from the Cumberland district to the city 
and still used occasionally for that purpose. 

The visitor will find that a trip across the bridge will 
provide two beautiful views, one up and one down the 
river. Below Georgetown, the Potomac is wide, and 
the bosom on which float many ships; above, it narrows 
to a pleasure stream, where only small craft venture. 
Georgetown is the head of navigation of the Potomac; 
there is no tide above Little Falls, and no ship of any 
size passes beneath the bridge. 





SPONSORED BY 
FRED DREW 


Page One Hundred and Sixty-one 

















CHRIST CHURCH, ALEXANDRIA 


ASHINGTON’S CHURCH,” it is often called, 
this historic old House of God in the Virginia 
City just across the Potomac from the Capital. 
It is so named because George Washington was 
one of the first twelve Vestrymen, who built the church, 
and also because he purchased a pew in it—a double 
pew, which still may be seen—for thirty pounds, ten 
shillings, and worshipped there for many years. 

The church dates from 1765. While it has been 
often restored and added to, it retains its original 
architecture and its severe simplicity of interior and 
much of its original furniture. 

It is a point of pilgrimage for all patriots. Ameri¬ 
cans stand reverently beside the pew occupied by Gen¬ 
eral Robert E. Lee, also a Vestryman in the church 
as well as before that used by Washington. 

The church is from designs of one James Wren, sup¬ 
posed to be a descendant of the famous Sir Christopher 
Wren, the great English architect; some see in the lines 
of Christ Church reminisences of Wren’s style, and find 
suggestions, in the simplicity of this edifice, of the noble 
St. Paul’s Cathedral of London. However that may be, 
it is certain that Christ Church is beautiful with a 
beauty not easy to imitate. 

While the church was finished and put to use in 1773 
the steeple was not added until 1818. It was lighted 
with gas in 1853, and the Parish Hall was extensively 
enlarged in 1901. 

In the old graveyard surrounding the church is little 
of interest to the visitor, interments having ceased in 
1808. 



SPONSORED BY 


HARRY A. KITE 


Page One Hundred and Sixty-three 













MT. VERNON 

T. VERNON, Washington’s home, sixteen 
miles down the historic Potomac River from 
the Capital City, has a wealth of loveliness to 
show the visitor. The beautiful grounds and 
mansion, the outbuildings, the estate and the tomb of 
Washington form a spot which must always be a Mecca 
to the patriotic American. 

It will come as a surprise to many to learn that this 
most sacred of American shrines is private property 
and not owned by the nation, yet it is true; Mt. Vernon 
belongs to the Ladies Mt. Vernon Association, which 
patriotic order rescued it from decay, has preserved and 
restored it, and furnished it anew, where possible, with 
the very articles which were in place there in Washing¬ 
ton’s time. 

The spacious grounds, the formal gardens, the old- 
fashioned kitchen with its curious implements of cook¬ 
ery, the slave quarters, the greenhouses, are all restored 
exactly as they were when Washington lived. 

Among the many interesting sights is the old coach 
house, and, behind bars of iron, the identical coach in 
which President Washington was wont to travel the 
roads to Alexandria or Pohick, to attend Sunday worship. 

To pay for the upkeep, a charge of twenty-five 
cents is made by the Ladies Mt. Vernon Association 
for admission to the grounds and buildings. Many 
visitors, not understanding the reason, resent the pay¬ 
ment of a fee to admit them to a privilege which all 
Americans feel should be without price to all Americans. 
But the small fee is not used for profit, but for the care 
of the buildings and grounds, cutting the lawns and pay¬ 
ing the salary of watchmen. As long as this spot re¬ 
mains in charge of the patriotic women who saved it 
from profane hands for the benefit of the nation, such 
a charge will be necessary. 



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WHERE WASHINGTON RESTS 


HE TOMB OF George Washington, First 
President, Past Master and Master Mason, is 
situated in the Mt. Vernon grounds, fifteen 
miles south of Washington, overlooking the 
Potomac River from the Virginia shore. Its plain brick 
form, its simple lack of ostentation were prescribed by 
the Father of His Country. 

Until 1831 the bodies of George and Martha Wash¬ 
ington rested in what is now known as “the old tomb,” 
a few steps from the present mausoleum. They were 
then removed to the present structure, where the two 
plain sealed sarcophagi, carved each from a single block 
of marble by John Struthers, of Philadelphia, in 1837, 
can be seen by the reverent visitor through the iron 
grating which closes the opening. 

Behind these simple resting places is an iron door, 
and back of it, in vaults within the earth itself, are buried 
more than forty members of the immediate family. 

Here is the spot to which visiting princes, potentates, 
ambassadors and dignitaries come to lay wreaths before 
the memory of the Father of the United States. It must 
be strange indeed to those who are familiar with the 
elaborate resting places of great men of the old world, 
to see this simple burial place, by no means so elaborate 
or so expensive as that provided for himself by many a 
man of modest means. But Washington was a man of 
simple tastes; his beautiful home and the grounds which 
surround it show that he valued comfort above formality 
and beauty of nature more than the beauty of display. 
He lies as he wished to lie, and the veneration in which 
his memory is held by a hundred million of his country¬ 
men lends a dignity to his simple tomb greater than that 
which could surround the most beautiful structure of 
granite and marble which shelters a less potent memory. 



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MEMORIAL AMPHITHEATER 

HIS glorious structure, built throughout of pure 
white Vermont marble, is the very crown and 
diadem of that necklace of beautiful monu¬ 
ments which is strung over the hills and dales 
which form Arlington National Cemetery. 

The Memorial, circular in shape, has a seating capacity 
of five thousand, with standing room for four thousand 
in addition. The structure is roofless, save for the 
colonades and the stage, and a building on the east 
front, which contains a chapel, crypt, a museum room, 
offices, etc. 

Spaces have been left for busts and commemorative 
tablets for especially distinguished men, and a few places 
are available for burial of the nation’s most distinguished 
dead in the crypt beneath. To prevent hasty and ill 
considered action, it is provided by law that no memo¬ 
rial may here be placed to any man until he has been 
dead ten years and then only upon act of Congress. 

It was in this Memorial Amphitheater that the final 
services were held over the Unknown Soldier, whose 
remains lie at rest in a white marble tomb immediately 
to the east of the Amphitheater, the most beautiful site 
in all Arlington. 

Ground for this memorial, which cost $750,000, was 
broken in 1915, and it was dedicated in 1920. 

It is pleasant to record that a Noble of Almas Temple, 
now gone with the Black Camel, worked unceasingly 
for the project which has borne such beautiful fruition; 
to Washington Masons, the name of Judge Ivory G. 
Kimball will always be associated with the great monu¬ 
ment in which he, as a veteran of the Civil War and 
active G. A. R. member and representative on the 
Building Commission, was so interested, and for which 
he labored so long that it became his life work. 



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THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER 


MMEDIATELY BEHIND the Arlington Memo¬ 
rial Amphitheater in the Nation’s Cemetery, is 
the marble tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 

He lies "on the brow of a hill,” overlook¬ 
ing the broad reaches of the Potomac and the City of 
Washington. His tomb is of Spartan simplicity, un- > 
decorated, but of the finest of marble, and on the most 
beautiful site the Government had to give. 

Here come visitors from all over the United States, 
who lay a wreath or a bouquet of flowers on the insen¬ 
sate stone, with the comforting thought that, if no one 
knows that he who lies beneath is the one they mourn, 
equally there is none to say he is not. 

And there will be many Nobles of many Temples who 
will visit the tomb and stand in silent respect before it, 
for if there is none who may say “he who lies here was 
a Free Mason,” none can say to the contrary. 

The Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic 
Shrine, shares with all other organizations the right to 
consider that the body that rests here for all time to 
come is, perhaps, of a member of their order. 

But in the larger sense, he who lies here at rest was a 
member of all orders, all faiths, all lodges. For all the 
unknown dead are here honored; all those who died, 
whose bodies could not be found, or, if found, remain 
unidentified, here stretch their silent length in peace. 
There is room on the broad top of this, his marble tomb, 
for wreaths for all, as there is room in the air above for 
prayers from those of all faiths. 

That he did not die in vain; that they, unknown, who 
are here sepulchured in memory, did not die in vain, is 
at once the promise and the unwritten inscription of a 
grieved and grateful country for all those who gave their 
all for the nation, beneath whose flag they lie at peace. 



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THE OVERSEAS DEAD 


HEY rest well, these sons of the Republic who 
gave their all for the country they loved. 

In beautiful Arlington they lie, serried ranks 
of them; little stone marker after little stone 
marker making a solemn procession across the quiet 
green sward, attesting the fact that they who have come 
home to rest are not forgotten, but are assured of per¬ 
petual care at the hands of a nation which can do 
nothing for them, dead, but honor them with the most 
beautiful resting place it has to offer. 

At best the sight is a sad one; there are so very, very 
many of these graves, and we all know there are many, 
many more in the quiet battle cemeteries “over there.” 
But there is, too, a certain comfort in the thought that 
they who were good Americans then, are good Amer¬ 
icans still; for the greatest good of the greatest number 
they laid down their lives, and now they join with the 
great majority. 

Not far away the three tall towers of the Arlington 
wireless station, the great Naval Radio home, stand silent 
sentinels over those who once were living sentinels. And 
this is fitting, for the Arlington Naval Radio station is 
the Navy’s greatest mouthpiece; it not only conducts 
naval business, but its broadcasting of time, of storm 
warnings, of news to ships, is an example of the Amer¬ 
ican idea of democracy which these who lie beneath the 
shadows of that silently speaking station died to preserve. 

There are many impressive monuments in Arlington; 
great structures of stone, noble sculptures, the pitiful 
mast of the Maine, but there are none, beautiful though 
they are, which are more impressive than these acres of 
little white stones, all alike, with the three high black 
iron towers behind, standing watch and ward over that 
still sleep. 



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“REMEMBER THE MAINE” 


MONG the many impressive sights to be seen 
in or near Washington, none strike a more re¬ 
sponsive chord in the breasts of patriotic men 
and women than the monument to the sailors 
who went down with the ill-fated “Maine.” 

Standing in a central position in Arlington National 
Cemetery is a crypt containing all that is mortal of the 
one hundred and sixty-three unidentified sailors and ma¬ 
rines who gave their lives when the “Maine” went down. 
This crypt is surmounted by the mast, conning tower 
and anchor of the “Maine,” so that the men who made 
the supreme sacrifice for their country lie beneath the 
superstructure of the ship they loved and which was at 
once their home, their pride, and their tomb. 

Masons who visit Arlington can stand before this 
simple but inspiring monument, unique among the 
marble shafts and carved statues of the City of the Dead, 
and bare their heads in the thought that of these who 
lie here, some were members of the Craft, some, perhaps, 
members of the Shrine. In the larger sense, all were 
brothers, since, in the line of duty, they met their death 
as American men should and always do; history records 
that in the wild moments following the blowing up of 
the “Maine,” there was no panic, no fear, but that all 
who lived stood to their posts awaiting orders. 

At the time it seemed that they who died, of whom 
this one hundred and sixty-three unidentified were but 
a part, had given up their lives uselessly and in vain. 
But with the quarter of a century which has passed, he 
would be a brave man who would say that free and re¬ 
habilitated Cuba, and civilized and enlightened Philip¬ 
pines, which grew from the war with Spain, would not 
be, to the men who died, should an allwise Providence 
permit them to see this earth, more than a reward for 
the sacrifice they made. 



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TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD 


MOST touching tribute to the spirit of re¬ 
union which has made the North and South 
again one country, is the Monument to the 
Confederate Dead, standing in a commanding 
position in the Nation s Burying Ground, Arlington. 

This beautiful tribute to the dead heroes of the Lost 
Cause was contributed by the women of the South, 
working through the Daughters of the Confederacy. It 
shows a bronze figure of a woman, symbol of the South 
in Peace, standing upon a lofty pedestal which is an 
octagonal base of marble, a circular frieze depicting the 
South in War, showing the sisters, daughters, wives, 
mothers and sweethearts sending out their men to battle 
and a circular upper section on which are the coats-of- 
arms of the States of the Confederacy. 

The inscriptions read: “To our ‘Dead Heroes, hy the 
United Daughters of the Confederacy. Victrix causa diis 
placuit, sed victa Catoni” (The victorious cause was 
pleasing to the gods, but the lost cause to Cato). 

“Not for fame or reward 
Not for place or for rank 
Not lured by ambition 
Or goaded by necessity 
But in simple 
Obedience to duty 
As they understood it. 

These men suffered all, 

Sacrificed all. 

Dared all, and died.” 

Around the upper part of the base is the noble phrase: 
“And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their 
spears into pruning hooks.” 

The entire work is the result of the labor of Moses 
Ezekiel, a sculptor who died in 1917, and who preserved 
his own face and form to posterity by modelling a por¬ 
trait of himself into the decorations of the monument. 



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THE LEE MANSION 


fSgSjSlTANDING on a bluff overlooking the Potomac 
and the Capital City from Arlington, the 
jjlggjgll Nation’s Burying Ground, the Lee Mansion 
occupies a commanding position and gives a 
view of Washington as a whole which is unsurpassed. 
This noble piece of architecture was begun by George 
Washington Parke Custis in 1804, and completed sub¬ 
sequent to the War of 1812. Its stately eastern facade 
of six huge Doric columns is said to be modeled after 
the Temple of Paestum, near Naples. 

The Mansion was the residence of General Robert E 
Lee up to 1861, when he resigned his commission in the 
army to enter the forces of the Confederacy and later to 
become their general in chief. 

The Mansion is in an excellent state of preservation 
and visitors may enter and go through its lower floors. 
Nearby is the final resting place of L’Enfant, who de¬ 
signed the City of Washington. 

The tablet upon this monument conveys the informa¬ 
tion that Pierre Charles L’Enfant was a soldier, an artist 
and an engineer, who planned the Federal City under 
the direction of George Washington. He was born in 
Paris in 1755, and died at Chillum Castle Manor in 
Maryland in 1825, but his remains were reinterred in 
Arlington in 1909. 

Not far from the Mansion is the open-air amphi¬ 
theater in which all Arlington Memorial Day obser¬ 
vances were held for many years, until the erection of 
the New Memorial Amphitheater, elsewhere described in 
these pages, provided a larger and even more appropriate 
setting for such exercises. 

Visitors can reach the Mansion easily from the electric 
cars which go to the Ft. Myer gate of Arlington Ceme¬ 
tery, or can drive directly to it in automobiles. 


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WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL 



N SHOOTERS HILL, just outside of Alexan¬ 
dria, Virginia, is now being erected the great 
Masonic Memorial Temple, to George Wash¬ 
ington, the Mason. 

This magnificent edifice is being financed by all the 
Masons of the United States, through their Grand 
Lodges, and through individual and lodge subscriptions. 
Memberships of certain classes carry with them the 
assurance that the name of the member will be em¬ 
blazoned in gold in the interior of the Temple to per¬ 
petuate forever the patriotism and the Masonic loyalty 
of those who subscribe. 

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial 
Association is fortunate in having obtained title to an 
ample amount of ground, which includes not only the 
hill on which the great Temple is to stand, but sufficient 
surrounding acreage to insure for all time a proper 
setting and background. 

This Temple is not now a mere hope and dream; 
the foundations are all laid (fourteen feet of solid con¬ 
crete) ; much of the grading has been done, and the 
visitor, while he can as yet sense little of the size 
and magnificence of the building, can visualize some¬ 
thing of its proportions from the massive base. 

The Temple will house and keep forever inviolate 
from fire and theft, those priceless relics of Washington 
the Mason now in the possession of Washington-Alex¬ 
andria Lodge, of which George Washington was Master, 
and provide another American shrine, dear to the hearts 
of all, but especially sacred to Masons. By it, members 
of the fraternity for all time to come will be reminded 
of the debt which our beloved order owes to him who 
was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts 
of his countrymen,” and who, while first President of 
the Republic, was Master of his lodge, and thought it an 
honor to be a Master Mason. 


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W. F. ROBERTS 


Page One Hundred and Eighty-one 





MT. VERNON ESTATE 


HIS beautiful Army Air Service view of Mt. 
Vernon gives us who see it today an idea of 
Washingtons home which even he could 
never have possessed. 

There are few private homes in all the world with 
sites which are the equal of Mt. Vernon. The high 
bluff on the top of which the house, outbuildings and 
formal gardens stand, overlooks the Potomac at one 
of its loveliest spots, where its waters broaden out into 
a great placid sheet with almost the effect of a lake. 

Winding into the picture to the left is Little Hunting 
Creek, and on the top of the picture in the right upper 
foreground is “Marsland” the country home of General 
James A. Drain. It stands upon the ground which 
formed the original “River Farm” of George Washing¬ 
ton s day. General Drain’s home is the last house on 
the Virginia shore before reaching Mt. Vernon approach¬ 
ing from Washington. 

The beholder will already have noted the steam-boat 
in the foreground of the picture, and sensed that the 
little landing and the winding road which lead from it 
to the top of the hill indicate that visitors may approach 
this hallowed spot by water. Indeed, the water trip 
to Mt. Vernon is beautiful in the extreme, and gives a 
wonderful idea of what the scenes were upon which 
Washington gazed, for the river banks are still farming 
country as they were in the day of the First President. 
The trip down by cars is quicker and can be made at 
any time; the boat trip is slower, more leisurely, but 
more beautiful. Those who really wish to know Wash¬ 
ington’s home should take both trips; both are enjoyable, 
and the estate, whether approached by land or by water, 
well worth going a long distance to see for its beauty, 
as well as for its sacred associations. 



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GENERAL JAMES A. DRAIN 


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SHERIDAN CIRCLE 



NE OF Washington’s beautiful residence sec¬ 
tions has as its heart Sheridan Circle, where 
stands the magnificent monument erected to 
General Philip Sheridan by Congress, at a 
cost of $60,000. The statue of bronze, showing 
Sheridan on horseback, differs from many of Wash¬ 
ington’s equestrian statues in that both horse and rider 
show the most intense action instead of the statuesque 
poses of many of the other public memorials of the 
city. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, chose to immor¬ 
talize the great soldier in bronze with as near an ap¬ 
proach to life as cold metal can express. 

The statue stands in a circle of green, surrounded by 
residences both historic and beautiful, among which are 
those of his widow, and of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris 
and the widow of General U. S. Grant. 

The Sheridan Monument here is not the only one to 
the great soldier; Arlington has a beautiful monument 
to his memory which may be found close to the Arling¬ 
ton Mansion and the L’Enfant tablet. 

Sheridan Circle stands at the beginning of Massachu¬ 
setts Avenue Extended, which winds up to the top of 
Mt. St. Albans, past the Naval Observatory, and close 
to the new Cathedral. Very near Sheridan Circle is the 
“Que St.” Bridge, or as it is more formally called, Rock 
Creek Bridge, which has the peculiar distinction of being 
the only bridge in the city built on a curve. It is some¬ 
thing like a Roman viaduct in plan, but is wholly Amer¬ 
ican in execution, have Indian Heads modeled after the 
life mask of “Kicking Bear” and being flanked on either 
end with huge bronze American Bison. 


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R. GOLDEN DONALDSON 


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UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY 



HE Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., is 
situated along the south bank of the Severn 
River. Two hundred acres of fine lawns and 
old trees, gives plenty of space for the build¬ 
ings, athletic fields, and drill gronuds that form the 
training school and the home for four years of the 
future officers of the United States Navy. The Naval 
Academy, founded in 1845, represents in its great 
buildings today an outlay of fifteen millions of dollars. 


All of its buildings are interesting, as all are beautiful, 
but it is to the chapel that visitors first turn, for here, 
in the crypt, is the resting place of John Paul Jones, 
sometimes called the Father of the American Navy. 
For more than a century after his death Jones slept in 
an old forgotten cemetery in Paris, where, after much 
effort and expense, his body was found, identified, and 
brought with great ceremony and pomp to its present 
magnificent sarcophagus in the Naval Academy Chapel. 
As restless in his death as he was in his life, this first 
officer in our Navy lives today as an inspiration to the 
youth of America. 

But the great distinction which the Academy enjoys 
is not because of its truly wonderful equipment, but to 
the character of officers it turns out. The traditions of 
the United States have always been in safe-keeping at 
the hands of the Navy; it is because of the way in 
which the Naval Academy makes American young men 
into American Naval Officers that the high ideals and the 
supreme ability of the Navy have never been questioned. 

Through the courtesy of Admiral Wilson, Comman¬ 
dant, the grounds and buildings will be open to the 
guests of the Nation’s capital during their stay; in addi¬ 
tion to the school itself, there will be several battleships 
in the harbor which visitors may visit. 


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WALTER REED HOSPITAL 

HIS magnificent government institution is the 
pride of the Army and the home of many 
an overseas lad who gave of his health and 
strength for us all. 

It is named, as all the world knows, for Dr. Walter 
Reed, Major in the Army, who risked his life to prove 
that yellow fever was communicable to man through 
mosquitoes and through whose sacrifice the Army con¬ 
quered the dread scourge. 

There will be many a Noble go to Walter Reed; 
Shrine bands will play there, and Shrine patrols “do 
their stuff” for the benefit of the Nobility among the 
patients who are too ill or crippled to get into the city 
to see the parades. And in this the Shrine will be but 
following the lead of all who come to Washington who 
have anything of pleasure to give for the patients here; 
actors, actresses, bands, orchestras, entertainers of all 
sorts, make it their pleasure to go to Walter Reed to give 
a happy hour to those who cannot come to the city to 
get it. 

From Walter Reed, from time to time, come great 
Army trucks of soldiers able to ride, yet not yet well 
enough to leave the hospital; they come as the guests 
of various theaters or the ball club, to hear lectures, 
entertainments and music. 

The beautiful grounds of Walter Reed on a summer’s 
evening are dotted with the patients and their friends, 
and many is the Washingtonian who goes out to share 
with the boys their pleasure in concert or other amuse¬ 
ment. 

A historic tree, known as “Sharpshooters’ Tree” stood 
for years near the entrance; it was used as an outpost 
by the Confederates in their attack on Fort Stevens. Its 
huge trunk, vine covered, was blown down four years 
ago, and now only its memory remains. 



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CONGRESS OFFICE BUILDINGS 

THE right and left of the Capitol building 
at Washington are huge white marble struc¬ 
tures which the guide will explain to the 
visitors as the House and Senate Office Build¬ 
ings. They are the business homes of the members of 
the Senators and the House of Representatives. Here 
each member of the national legislature has one of 600 
offices, in which he can transact his business, keep his 
papers, house his secretary, receive constituents and visi¬ 
tors and generally do the enormous amount of work 
which falls to his lot in addition to his labors in House 
or Senate. 

Before these buildings were erected, a few fortunate 
Members and Senators could find somewhat crowded 
quarters in the Capitol building. But with the rapid 
increase in the number of Members of the House and 
the extension of their work from being merely legislators 
to representing hundreds of interests of the “folks back 
home” in Washington, grew the necessity for more 
elaborate working quarters. These the two huge office 
buildings supply, and with the Capitol, Library, Union 
Station and Post Office, form a group of magnificent 
structures which make Capitol Hill as beautifully em¬ 
bellished as any elevation in the world. 

It is the policy of the Government, when it builds 
(except when war times demand haste), to construct 
only well-made, permanent buildings which will last 
many years and express in beauty and dignity the char¬ 
acter of this Government. 

Hence, it is no surprise to learn that the Senate Office 
Building is worth, with its ground, four and a half 
million dollars, with the House Office Building costing 
but little less. 



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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 



ilHIS institution is situated in a ninety-acre 
tract of land, northwest of the junction of 
Nebraska Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue 
Extended. It is a university for post-graduate 
studies founded under the auspices of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

The late Frederick Law Olmstead laid out the plans, 
which include twenty-six buildings, of which, however, 
only two have been built. 


During the War the grounds were turned over to the 
government, which here erected a camp and also con¬ 
ducted many experiments in the chemical warfare di¬ 
vision. 


It has been the intention to make American Univer¬ 
sity a national institution and thus carry out, even if 
but indirectly, the wish of President George Washing¬ 
ton that the capital city have an institution of higher 
learning which would be nationwide in scope. Prior 
to the erection of the Washington Monument, Congress 
considered the founding of such a university, as a memo¬ 
rial, a plan later abandoned. There is, in Washington, 
George Washington University, a flourishing institution 
of great educational value, but it is not a governmental 
school. 

American University had its real beginning in 1888 
when Bishop John F. Hurst acquired for $100,000 the 
property then known as Friendship. It is now, of 
course, worth far more. Bishop Hurst died in 1896, 
and Bishop Cranston took up the work to such good 
effect that ground was broken for the College of History, 
the corner stone of which was laid by President Theodore 
Roosevelt, so that the building was entirely completed by 

1898. 


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L. E. BRUENINGER 


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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL 


EN you haven’t very much to be proud of, 
you are inordinately proud of what you have! 
Washington has little to be proud of in its 
public school system. Congress, sitting as a 
City Council for the Capital City, seems to have greater 
regard for votes “back home” by making a record for 
“economy” than for the welfare of the children of the 
city of the seat of the Government. 

But when it does have a fit of nervous generosity 
and makes an appropriation for a new school building, it 
usually provides for a good one, as in this magnificent 
building, with its own stadium and tennis courts. 

Far too small now, and crowded so that many of its 
classes are but half periods, Central High is yet a won¬ 
derful building, with a huge auditorium, a large and 
well-equipped stage, a complete equipment of laboratories 
and work shops, as well as the necessary school rooms, 
and with its own gymnasium and swimming pool. 

It is located on the “brow of a hill” overlooking the 
city, on a plot of ground totalling four city squares, 
between Eleventh and Thirteenth Streets and Florida 
Avenue and Clifton Street. It annually graduates sev¬ 
eral hundred young men and women prepared for col¬ 
leges, most of which admit Washington High School 
graduates on graduation credits and without examination. 

Nobles who read this, necessarily interested in the 
cause of education because they are Masons, will find 
a visit to this and a few other Washington schools well 
worth while. 

But don’t visit the school system as a whole—unless 
you are prepared to be “all het up and ready to go 
back home and talk to your Congressman and Senator 
about what their duty is in the matter of allowing vote¬ 
less Washington to buy itself a decent school system! 



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ASHINGTON’S very newest school is the great 
building just dedicated to the education of 
Washington youth in the east of the city. 
This huge building which covers four city 
blocks, has long been advocated by the Southeast Cit¬ 
izens’ Association, which organization was justly out¬ 
raged by the cramped quarters and out of date equipment 
of the old Eastern High School. Congress was finally 
prevailed upon to grant the necessary funds, and the new 
Eastern High School was built and put in service. (It 
must be remembered that the United States Government, 
pays no taxes in the city, but contributes forty per cent 
to the District revenues to sixty per cent raised by taxa¬ 
tion, and that Washington cannot spend its own money 
on its own schools without Congress says it may.) 

It cost approximately two million dollars, and is a 
delight to lovers of good schools. Its equipment is of the 
best, and includes such modern additions as a fine gym¬ 
nasium, a good cafe, playgrounds, laboratories, etc. 

In justice to the Washington school system, it must be 
said that in spite of the niggardly policy of Congress, 
and the run-down and out-of-date condition of most of 
the buildings, the crowded and congested class rooms 
have nevertheless maintained a high scholarship average, 
and that high graduates are admitted to most colleges 
on their graduation certificates. 

The esprit du corps in Washington High Schools is of 
a very high order; rivalry between the several high 
schools is keen, and teachers and pupils alike feel that 
the honor of their school is worth the hardest sort of 
work to keep spotless. Hence it is that in spite of 
physical handicaps of the past, the scholastic standing of 
the schools has been of the best; with the new equip¬ 
ment it will doubtless prove second to none in the 
country. 


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A. C. HERRMANN 


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UNIVERSITY CLUB 

HE UNIVERSITY CLUB of Washington, was 
founded in 1 904. The attractive old residence 
at Sixteenth and K Streets, which was its tem¬ 
porary home was soon outgrown and the pres¬ 
ent club house, opened on New Year s Eve, 1913. 

This dignified, well proportioned building faces Mc¬ 
Pherson Square, one of the small parks so characteristic 
of Washington, which is like a pleasant garden at the 
door of the club house. The large reading room, the 
spacious and beautiful lounge, the library, the large and 
small dining rooms, like the spacious entrance hall and 
the beautiful open stairway, which extends to the dining 
room floor, secure open spaces and airiness, an impor¬ 
tant matter in Washington, with its taste of the Tropics 
in summer. The Club also provides rooms for news¬ 
papers and periodicals and for cards and billiards. 

Books are much in evidence in the Club and the li¬ 
brary is constantly increasing in size and importance. 
There is also a steady growth in the Club’s small but 
interesting collection of pictures and portraits, headed 
by the beautiful contemporary portrait of Washington, 
one of the Club’s prized possessions. 

Besides these provisions for general and special uses, 
the University Club also has two stories of suites and 
single rooms for members and guests, and so much in 
demand are they that the three additional stories for 
which the original club house plan calls are now very 
urgently needed. 

Situated within a few squares of several other 
clubs, and equally near the White House, United States 
Treasury, the State, War and Navy, and other public 
buildings, and with Lafayette Square and three other 
of Washington’s beautiful small parks almost as near, 
the Club is in the heart of the most interesting section 
of the city. 



SPONSORED BY 

DANIEL W. SHEA, PRESIDENT 


Page One Hundred and Ninety-nine 






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WASHINGTON GOLF AND 


COUNTRY CLUB 











Page Two Hundred and One 

















WASHINGTON GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB 


RGANIZED and incorporated in 1908, with 
club house and grounds at Rixey, Arlington 
County, Virginia, five miles from Washington, 
this flourishing club has been a favorite with 
Washington golfers for many years. 

The club is reached by the Washington & Old Domin¬ 
ion Railway line from 36th and M Streets, Georgetown, 
by a first-class concrete and bituminous road leaving 
Georgetown over the new Key Bridge, or by 20-minute 
bus service from the Georgetown end of Key Bridge. 

The thoroughly modern 1 8-hole course has lately been 
remodeled. It is a “sporty course,” 6,200 feet in 
length, and is rather difficult, par being 73. 

The Club House and grounds are located in the 
Virginia hills at an elevation of about 300 feet and 
command a very fine view of Washington. 

A thoroughly up-to-date cuisine and club-house service 
delights the club’s 600 members. 

This was the favorite course of ex-President Wilson, 
who played upon it almost every day, when in the city, 
during his term of office. 

President Harding joined the Club before his election 
and has been a constant player on these grounds since. 

The Club numbers among its membership many of 
the most prominent people in the city, including govern¬ 
ment and diplomatic officials, army and navy officers, 
members of Congress, and prominent business men. 



SPONSORED BY 


Page Two Hundred and Two 


FRED D. PAXTON 







THE AIR MAP 


NY guide book has a map of Washington, but 
not like the one shown on pages 88 and 89. 

It required Army airplanes to make this 
one! Remarkable though it may seem, this 
picture of the city is a composite of two hundred and 
fifteen separate exposures, all made in two hours and 
ten minutes, by one plane, flying at an altitude of ten 
thousand feet above the city. 

The resulting pictures were mosaiced together, and 
a photograph made of the whole, which is what is there 
presented for inspection. 

The picture gives a fine idea of the way in which the 
Potomac River splits into three channels at Washington, 
that running along the bottom of the picture being the 
main or Georgetown channel, the central, short one 
being the Washington channel, up which come the boats 
from Chesapeake Bay, and the one running almost 
vertically across the right end of the picture being the 
Anacostia River. 

The pointed piece of land between the Georgetown 
and Washington channels is the ‘‘Speedway’’ or ‘‘Potomac 
Park,’’ which is a public playground for golf, tennis, 
motoring, swimming and other sports. 

An examination of the city will show the diagonal 
layout of the avenues crossing the north and south and 
east and west streets at angles. This feature, extremely 
confusing to the stranger, enables the sight-seer familiar 
with the city to save much time in going from place 
to place. 

Comparison with a guide book map, in which details 
are lacking but names presented, will afford a good way 
of visualizing this picture as it looks to a native Wash¬ 
ingtonian, except that the visitor will not gather from 
this picture the vision of Washington’s many hills and 
valleys, which are the foundation for much of Washing¬ 
ton’s beauty. 



SPONSORED BY 

JOHN H. SMALL, III 


Page Two Hundred and Three 


























RACQUET CLUB 

OCATED in a beautiful club house on Six¬ 
teenth Street, between L and M Streets, three 
squares north of the White House, the 
Racquet Club (which gets its name from its 
squash and racquet courts), provides athletic facilities 
for a membership of more than nine hundred, which 
includes many of the most prominent men of America, 
and an out of town membership of even greater size. 

The corner stone was laid by General John J. Pershing, 
February 12, 1921. 

One of the features of the Racquet Club is its beauti¬ 
ful swimming pool, with continually flowing and elec¬ 
trically purified water, a place especially popular in very 
hot weather. 


The Racquet Club is often referred to as the “younger 
men s club” because of a large number of the younger 
men of Washington who find here congenial friends and 
pleasant environment. The club is modelled along the 
same lines as the Racquet Clubs of Boston, New York 
and Philadelphia. 

In addition to its Bowling Alleys, Turkish Baths, 
Swimming Pool, Billiard and Card rooms, the club has 
one hundred bed rooms, many of which are rented to 
members permanently, but a large number are for the 
convenience of its ever-increasing non- resident members 
who constitute its transient guests. 

The cuisine of the club is especially noted in the City 
where “good food” is a matter of course. 

The dining hall of the club is especially noted in a 
city where fine cuisines are accepted as a matter of 
course, the chefs making a specialty of those dishes 
popularly supposed to appeal most strongly to strictly 
masculine tastes. 


SPONSORED BY 

C. BRYAN PITTS 


Page Two Hundred and Five 
















CITY CLUB 


ASHINGTON’S CITY CLUB, occupying a 
beautiful building on G Street between 13th 
and 14th, has a membership of two thousand 
of Washington s leading business men. 

It provides the usual club facilities, of restaurant, ball 
room, reception room, card and billiard rooms, etc., but 
in addition has striven to become a center for public 
activities. To this end its huge ball room, which can 
comfortably seat a thousand, is in continuous use for 
lectures, concerts, entertainments, conventions, smokers, 
and other events of a civic interest. 

One of the very attractive features of the Club is its 
central location. It is in the very heart of the down¬ 
town district, so that the many business men who form 
its membership spend the least possible time in getting 
to the building. The great interest taken in its activities 
by its membership has put it in the forefront of Wash¬ 
ington business men’s organizations. 

Women of families of members have the privilege 
of the club rooms and restaurant; indeed have all the 
privileges of their male relatives except two; they may 
neither vote, nor smoke in the club. 

One of the features of the club is the Forum, a weekly 
luncheon for all members who care to come, at which 
time a speaker addresses the meeting upon some topic 
of local or national importance. This may seem of less 
interest that it is to those who fail to reflect that Wash¬ 
ington, during the season, has “on tap” a greater collec¬ 
tion of notable speakers, and is visited by a larger num¬ 
ber of national and international figures than any other 
municipality in the country. 

The Forum is thus a liberal education as the speakers 
are almost invariably men of fame or prominence in 
their lines. 



SPONSORED BY 

FREDERICK B. PYLE 


Page Tti o Hundred and Seven 










CONGRESSIONAL COUNTRY CLUB 


KE AN enormous castle on the Rhine is the 
new Congressional Country Club house now 
being erected on a commanding site on the 
club property. The structure will be five 
stories high, solidly built of concrete, steel and stone, 
and will be 258 feet long. With 52 bedrooms, each with 
a bath, a main lounge of large dimensions, a spacious 
dining room, a gymnasium and an indoor swimming 
pool and with every equipment demanded by a modern 
club house, the building, not including decorations and 
furnishings, will cost $450,000. 

The contract calls for completion on the 31st of 
August. In the meantime the first 9 holes of the 36 
holes contemplated to be constructed on the property 
will be opened for play on Decoration day, at which 
time there will be also a cornerstone laying, at which 
President Harding is expected to officiate. 

The Club includes guest rooms for members or 
friends, who can enjoy not only the Club privileges 
while spending a week end, but the beautiful view, and 
the coolness which comes from the situation on top 
of a high plateau. 

A feature of the property will be an artificially created 
lake, which will be formed by damming an adjacent 
valley. The lake is to be stocked with fish, and boat¬ 
ing, swimming, water polo and other aquatic sports 
will thus be a feature of Club life. 

With the most distinguished possible list of officers 
and governors, ample funds, a wonderful property of 
406 acres, and a building which will be second to none 
in the country, this institution promises to become, 
what its founders, proponents and members believe it 
should be, a National institution, where the men who 
are the government can play, as well as work, together. 



SPONSORED BY 

ALMAS TEMPLE 


Page Two Hundred and Nine 













CONNECTICUT AVENUE BRIDGE 

HE “MILLION DOLLAR BRIDGE," as this 

structure is sometimes called, spans Rock 
Creek Valley, connecting Washington City 
proper with several outlying suburbs, particu¬ 
larly Cleveland Park, former home of President Cleve¬ 
land, Chevy Chase, D. C., and Chevy Chase, Maryland. 
It is also a highway to one entrance of the Zoological 
Park, the nation’s wild animal home. 

The gorge, crossed by this huge bridge which is 1,341 
feet long and ample enough for a driveway thirty-five 
feet in width and two sidewalks each eight feet wide, is 
Government land, set aside for an extension of the Na¬ 
tional Park, which in time will be connected with the 
Speedway, or Potomac River Park, at the southern boun¬ 
dary of the city. 

When this connection is made, Washington s park 
system will surpass that of any two capitals in the world, 
combined. The Speedway Drive, the Rock Creek Drive 
connection, the Zoological Park and Rock Creek Park 
together, will provide an area and a road mileage which 
it will hardly be possible to cover in an entire day 
of driving, affording the maximum of variety and 
interest. 

Visitors to fashionable Wardman Park Inn, the Chevy 
Chase Country Club and the Columbia Country Club 
find the bridge the most convenient highway. Its 
Washington City entrance is gained by passage north on 
Connecticut Avenue, passing through a region of large 
and beautiful apartment houses, and going by Temple 
Heights, the magnificent site just acquired by the Grand 
Lodge, F. A. A. M., of the District of Columbia, on 
which it is proposed to erect a Masonic Temple worthy 
of the city of Washington, or perhaps a group of Temples 
each housing a separate branch of Masonry. 



SPONSORED BY 

HARRY WARDMAN 


Page Two Hundred and Eleven 

















COLUMBIA COUNTRY CLUB 

N the west side of Connecticut Avenue ex¬ 
tended, beyond Chevy Chase, the Columbia 
Country Club offers to a large membership the 
pleasure to be found in magnificent golf 
courses, and tennis courts which have no superior. 
The Club house is large and imposing, and the cafe 
something about which its members and guests are 
wont to brag. 

As the airplane view shows, the Club House is situated 
in delightfully rolling country, which makes the Colum¬ 
bia course noted for its hazards, its difficulty and the 
pleasure of playing it. 

It is within easy access of the city both by cars, 
which pass the door, and a straight line road which 
leads to the heart of the residential section and later, 
to business Washington. 

Columbia Country Club is a favorite haunt of the 
families of its members. The Club extends its privi¬ 
leges to members’ wives and has developed feminine 
golf and tennis among a large number of fair devotees 
who otherwise would miss the joys of these outdoor 
sports. Its broad porches and spacious rooms invite, 
and receive, many card parties and social functions. 

The Club has reached that favorable position, the 
ideal of all such organizations, when its finances are 
upon a secure footing and its membership, is full, 
with a fat and comfortable waiting list looking hope¬ 
fully towards the resignation of someone already “in.” 
Many of the Nobility will find their way to the Club 
during the week, as guests of Nobles of Almas, and 
although the property is in the State of Maryland, it 
is a District of Columbia welcome which will there be 
extended from a Club which is almost wholly of Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia members. 



SPONSORED BY 

FRANK H. EDMONDS 


Page Two Hundred and Thirteen 







WARDMAN PARK HOTEL 
Sponsored by Thomas P. Bones 








HOTELS AND THEATERS 



VERY city in the land boasts of its hospitality; 
and probably all have the right to boast. Every 
city likes to think its hotels are the best, its 
hospitality the most open, its welcome the 


most hearty! 


So it is perhaps only natural if Washington brags a 
little of its hotels; its houses of hospitality downtown, 
largely for the transient, and its apartment hotels up¬ 
town, where so much of Washington lives. 

Washington in recent years has had many additions 
to its family of hotels, and each, as it is built, strives to 
outdo the one before, and to add some peculiar attrac¬ 
tion of its own to individualize it in a city well filled 
with hotels, apartment dwellings and their various com¬ 
binations. 


Washington is blessed in lying between Maryland 
and Virginia, and so can truly lay claim to having 
wedded the two schools of cooking which these two great 
States have given to the world. There is no ham like 
Smithfield ham. And there is no chicken like chicken 
a la Maryland, at least, so say the epicures, most vera¬ 
cious (should that be voracious?) beings that be. And 
if you have yet to eat either dish in its home environ¬ 
ment, try both at any Washington hotel, and then make 
your plans to come here to live! 

Washington has its proportion of amusement homes, 
both “legitimate” theaters, and motion picture houses. 
And in both it has much to be proud of. Several of the 
play houses devoted to the spoken drama and vaudeville 
have been rebuilt, inside and out, giving to the city some 
very beautiful playhouses, and in its several monster 
motion picture houses, the city has nothing to learn 
from any sister municipality, as any visitor may prove 
for himself. 


Page Two Hundred and Fifteen 








HOTEL ROOSEVELT 
Sponsored by Henry D. Tudor 

















THE CHASTLETON HOTEL 
Sponsored by Theodore L. Weed 








THE LEE HOUSE 
Sponsored by R. P. Whitty 









HOTOL HAMILTON 

Sponsored by William A. Mills 










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LOEWS PALACE THEATRE 

Sponsored by Walter Brownley 

























RIGGS NATIONAL BANK 

Sponsored by Charles C. Glover 


< U. Uh 















































WASHINGTON BANKS 



ANKING INSTITUTIONS in Washington en¬ 
joy a privilege beyond those in other cities; 
no other financial institutions live so closely 
under the shadow of the greatest in the coun¬ 
try, the United States Treasury. And it is Washington s 
proud boast that when the Treasury called upon the 
banks and the people of the nation for their re¬ 
sources; when war made the Liberty bond and the war 
savings stamp the measure of the patriotism of a pocket 
book, Washington banks and Washington bank accounts 
enabled Washington s various quotas to go “over the 
top” in record time, and often largely to exceed what 
was expected. 


It is but fair to Washington to draw the attention of 
the visitor to the fact that Washington banking institu¬ 
tions do not have the opportunities enjoyed by banks in 
commercial cities, where great manufacturing interests, 
large shipping interests, and huge business interests, 
make for large banks. 

Washington is a city of government. It is a city the 
“business” of which is to clothe, feed and make happy 
the thousands of men and women who conduct the 
affairs of the government. Uncle Sam is not a spec¬ 
tacular paymaster; his employees do not roll in wealth! 
But, led by Washington financial institutions, they are 
thrifty, and so both the people and the banks prosper, 
and if Washington has no huge procession of freight cars 
carrying away its manufactures and bringing in enormous 
banking business, neither has it much misery, poverty, 
failure or hopelessness. 

Washington banks are alive, up-to-date, and vigorous, 
and from the largest to the smallest, stand now with 
doors open to welcome the Noble guest and serve him 
in any way they may! 


Page Two Hundred and Twenty-three 





NATIONAL SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY 
Sponsored by William D. Hoover 


















COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK 
Sponsored by R. Golden Donaldson 
















SCOTT CIRCLE 



HIS remarkable Army Aeroplane view of the 
intersection of Massachusetts and Rhode 
Island Avenues and 16th Street gives the 
visitor an excellent idea of the ramifications 
of the traffic problem in Washington. The observer will 
note the automobile tracks, where the rubber tires leave 
dark markings upon the concrete. He will observe two 
paths about the circle, one within, the other outside the 
safety curbing, and can visualize the congestion which 
at rush hours is caused, rather than prevented, by the 
extra wide streets. 

Scott Circle contains the bronze, heroic size, equestrian 
statue erected to Lieut.-Gen. Winfield Scott, by a grate¬ 
ful country. Its metal is that of Mexican cannon. The 
$45,000 it cost paid not only for the statue but the five 
huge blocks of Cape Ann granite which are the pedestal. 

At the extreme right of the picture is the Hahnemann 
Memorial. To the left stands Daniel Webster. 

Washington has many such interesting points, where 
the diagonal avenues and the north and south and east 
and west streets cross. They serve as oases in the 
wilderness of city houses, provide open spaces, green 
grass and colorful flowers, and make a pleasant break in 
the otherwise too long street vistas. It is true that these 
circles result in considerable confusion to visitors; some 
of them are more elaborately provided with “spokes” in 
the shape of crossing streets than Scott Circle, although 
here N Street also would cross, had it been continued 
through the two triangular parks. 

However, Washington streets are plainly marked, and 
no visiting Noble should find any difficulty in getting 
either guide or counsel as to which way to go, in spite 
of the complicated system of avenues and streets which 
make Washington difficult while making it beautiful. 


SPONSORED BY 

ALMAS TEMPLE DRUM CORPS 


Page Two Hundred and Twenty-seven 






































YOUR MONEY 


O YOU know that it is the most beautiful 
money in the world? There is no other 
country which spends as much time, care and 
thought, which has so fine a plant, which 
takes so much pride, in its paper currency, as this. 

In the great Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where 
all the paper money, bonds, certificates, postage stamps, 
and all other fine engraving and printing of the United 
States is done, is assembled the most expert corps of 
engravers, the most up-to-date and modern machinery, 
and the most costly material possible to obtain. 

The result is not only the most artistic currency, the 
currency with the greatest long-wearing qualities, but a 
currency which is next to impossible successfully to 
counterfeit. Of course, counterfeit bills have been made; 
but never so well that they are not almost instantly de¬ 
tected by trained handlers of money. 

It is not alone the special brand of paper used, with 
its silk threads enmeshed in its fibre, paper which no 
other print shop in the world can buy; it is not only the 
assembling of the product of many engraving machines 
and many engravers upon one master plate; it is not 
only the system of numbering, nor the ceaseless, never- 
ending count, count, count of every sheet of paper, every 
sheet of work, that goes on all the time; it is also a 
system of manufacture, a “straight line” process, and an 
organization which for efficiency has no superiors, which 
makes your money safe. 

Every employee of the Bureau of Engraving and 
Printing knows that the credit of the United States is to 
some extent in his or her hands, and cooperates willinglv 
and cheerfully in the checks and counterchecks which 
make a failure, a theft, a counterfeit, a practical im¬ 
possibility. 



SPONSORED BY 

WM. B. WESTLAKE 


Page Tiro Hundred and Twenty-nine 











BUREAU OF STANDARDS 



OBLES who are interested in science will find 
the Bureau of Standards a mine of interest. 

This large governmental institution has cus¬ 
tody of all the standards; standard meter, 
standard liter, standard yard and pound and so on. It 
fixes standards of measure and of quality; it creates 
standards when none exist. It tests measuring instru¬ 
ments; it calibrates thermometers; it determines physical 
constants; it investigates the strength of materials. 

Its work is done for the United States government or 
State governments free of charge; for others for whom 
it works a reasonable fee is collected. 


It is most intimately connected with the life of the 
nation, since its work is performed for manufacturers, 
educational institutions and commercial houses. 

It is housed in many buildings, which are, in effect, 
one vast laboratory where almost anything may be done 
in physics or chemistry, from dragging apart a steel bar 
to see how strong it is, to testing an electric light to 
ascertain its candle power. 

Its equipment is of the very best; it is modern in 
every particular even to its location, which is well be¬ 
yond the city limits that no jar of passing truck or elec¬ 
trical disturbance from too close power line interfere 
with its delicate measurements. 

It has a large and growing scientific library, which is 
open to the use of the public for consultation. 

A visit to this wonderful storehouse of knowledge is 
full of fascination; so many different activities are carried 
on, in so many divers ways, that, as one visitor expressed 
it “you never know where they are going to break out 
next.” Nowhere in Washington is the force of govern¬ 
ment for education and knowledge better exemplified 
than here. 


SPONSORED BY 


HENRY M. BRAWNER, JR. 


Page Two Hundred and Thirty-one 







APPRECIATION 


HIS BOOK, the gift of Almas Temple to the 
official delegates to the Imperial Council Ses¬ 
sion, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the 
Mystic Shrine, Washington, D. C., 1923, has 
been made possible through the generosity, public spirit 
and hospitality of the various gentlemen who have spon¬ 
sored the pages between its covers. 

To them, individually and collectively, the Program 
Committee, under the auspices of which the work was 
done, tenders its heartfelt thanks. 

It is a pleasure to express appreciation of the hard 
work put into the plans for this book by Mr. James W. 
Copeland, to whose energy and devotion the work owes 
much, to Noble J. Harry Cunningham, who made the 
plates, to Nobles W. F. and B. H. Roberts, whose skill 
in printing speaks for itself, to Noble George A. 
Simonds, who did the binding, and to Noble Carl H. 
Claudy, who is responsible for the text and make-up. 
The facts presented were gathered from so many sources 
that full credit in this space would be impossible, but the 
author desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to Rand 
McNally’s “Guide to Washington,” and especially to 
Rider’s “Washington,” works without which this book 
would have been neither complete nor interesting. 

Thanks are due, and herewith tendered, the many 
photographers who supplied pictures for the volume, 
without money and without price. Specifically, the book 
is indebted to Nobles Ernest L. Crandall, George Harris, 
and Fred Schutz, to Brothers R. J. Bonde and Herbert 
E. French, and especially to the Army Air Service, 
which threw open its files and kindly permitted us to 
make use of their marvelous aerial views. Every aero¬ 
plane picture in the book is the work of the skilled 
photographers and fliers of the Army. 

Roe Fulkerson, Chairman Program Committee. 



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